Features of The Natural and Unnatural History of Congenital Heart Disease

• Evaluates the natural history of congenital heart lesions as a background to finding out if and how much treatment has improved outcomes
• Introduces and defines lesions, providing general information about its frequency, familial or syndromic associations, and associated congenital heart lesions
• Provides sections on pathological anatomy and physiology – important in determining outcomes
• Includes results of surgery, both in terms of survival and also in terms of event-free survival, that is, survival free of reoperation, cardiac failure, arrhythmias, and other late complications that are often seen
• Helps cardiologists and cardiac surgeons understand what is likely to happen to patients with or without treatment, and which forms of treatment currently in use provide the best outcomes to date

Contents

1. Theory
2. Associated non-cardiac disease
3. Aorto-pulmonary shunts
4. Banding the pulmonary artery
5. Conduits and valves
6. "Single ventricle" repairs
7. Patent ductus arteriosus
8. Anomalous prigin of one pulmonary artery from the aorta (hemitruncus)
9. Aortopulmonary window
10. Coronary arterial fistulae
11. Intracranial arteriovenous fistulae
12. Hepatic arteriovenous fistulae
13. Peripheral arteriovenous fistulae
14. Congenital aneurysms of the sinus of valsalva
15. Atrial septal defect (secundum)
16. Partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection with an intact atrial septum
17. Atrioventricular septal defect (partial or ostium primum defect)
18. Atrioventricular septal defect (complete)
19. Ventricular septal defect
20. Pulmonic stenosis
21. Double chambered right ventricle
22. Pulmonary arterial anomalies
23. Valvar aortic stenosis
24. Bicuspid aortic valve without stenosis
25. Supravalvar aortic stenosis
26. Discrete subvalvar aortic stenosis
27. Coarctation of the aorta
28. Interrupted aortic arch
29. Cor triatriatum
30. Mitral valve
31. Aortic valve
32. Aortico-left ventricular tunnel
33. Mitral valve
34. Tricuspid valve
35. Pulmonic valve
36. Origin of a coronary artery from the pulmonary artery
37. Anomalous aortic origin of a coronary artery
38. Vascular rings and slings
39. Tetralogy of fallot
40. Complete d-transposition of the great arteries
41. Tricuspid atresia
42. Pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum
43. Ebstein’s anomaly
44. Hypoplastic left heart
45. Truncus arteriosus
46. Single ventricle
47. Double outlet right ventricle
48. Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection
49. Heterotaxies
50. Eisenmenger’s complex
51. Pulmonary arteriovenous fistula
52. Venous anomalies

Index

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