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Pediatric cardiac surgery is a dynamic, fast-moving field. Busy practitioners need clear and comprehensive guidance to ensure optimal patient care. For over 25 years, this book has been the gold-standard reference for pediatric and adult cardiac surgeons, pediatric and adult cardiologists, intensivists, anesthesiologists, residents and nurses.

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Pediatric cardiac surgery is a dynamic, fast-moving field. Busy practitioners, like you, need clear and comprehensive guidance you can rely on to ensure optimal patient care.

For over 25 years Pediatric Cardiac Surgery has been the gold-standard reference for pediatric and adult congenital heart surgeons, pediatric and congenital cardiologists, intensivists, anesthesiologists, residents and nurses.

Now, in this thoroughly revised fourth edition, you again get trusted, complete coverage of the field with timely new features and expert reviews of critical topics including heart transplantation, emerging modalities for diagnosing congenital heart and tracheal defects, the surgical technique of Fontan conversion with arrhythmia surgery, the medical challenges of managing adult CHD patients, and more.

This new edition includes:
Contributions from over 65 world-renowned experts
More beautiful illustrations, by renowned medical illustrator Rachid Idriss, which have brought acclaim to previous editions
Reviews of the embryology, physical findings, diagnostic criteria, and therapeutic choices for each disease entity and describes the latest in surgical techniques in each chapter
All-new chapters that guide readers through new treatment options and other key developments since the publication of the third edition highlighting recent advances in congenital heart surgery.
All-new new chapters that review advances in right ventricular to pulmonary artery conduits, arrhythmia surgery, double outlet ventricles, and adult congenital heart disease, among other key topics.

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"Pediatric cardiac surgery is a dynamic, fast-moving field. Busy practitioners, like you, need clear and comprehensive guidance you can rely on to ensure optimal patient care." ( Kingbook73 s Medical Ebook and Video Collection , 27 August 2014)

"Overall, this is a reasonable update that brings this book current with the best examples of others in this area. It is large, complete, well illustrated, and readable, covering a very complex set of congenital anomalies." ( Doody´s , 10 January 2013)

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EDITED BY
CONSTANTINE MAVROUDIS, MD
Director, Congenital Heart Institute, Florida Hospital for Children
Site Director, Johns Hopkins Children s Heart Surgery, Florida Hospital for Children, Orlando, FL, USA

CARL L. BACKER, MD
Division Head, Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgery, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children´s Hospital of Chicago
Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA

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