Heart Failure In Adult Congenital Heart Disease

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Whilst bringing together top international experts who are leading reference programs around the globe, this book is an indispensable teaching tool for clinicians and caregivers involved in the management of critically ill adults with congenital heart disease.

Intensive Care of the Adult with Congenital Heart Disease The book also includes chapters focusing on cardiac-database and risk-factor assessment, organizational and operational topics, advanced mechanical circulatory assistance and pharmacology. It provides the first universal review of the practical management of patients with these complex conditions, who survive into adulthood with congenital cardiac malformations and are often affected by other morbidities.Dedicated to the critical management of acutely ill adults with congenital heart disease, this comprehensive book discusses the many challenges faced in the management of these patients, who require intensive inter- and trans-disciplinary care.

It has been written for a broad audience, bearing in mind that care in adolescents is an interdisciplinary task involving close collaboration among physicians, specialists, nurses, patients, and relatives.

Congenital Heart Disease and Adolescence In addition, it explains how care should be organized in order to ensure that the needs of adolescents with CHD are fully met.

Readers will find much information that is underreported in the literature, and the book goes well beyond the European Society of Cardiology guidelines, for example, by considering medical conditions not defined as high risk and addressing the organization of care thoroughly.

The first section provides clear advice on pre-pregnancy risk estimation, counseling of patients, medication use, and inheritance.The specific risks associated with congenital heart defects of differing severity are then explained, with guidance on monitoring and management.

Mistakes and pitfalls in the management of patients with PAH-CHD are often related to a lack of knowledge or expertise in this condition.Â Pulmonary Hypertension in Adult Congenital Heart DiseaseÂ will be a valuable resource and learning tool for all who care for patients with ACHD, both in tertiary practice and general cardiology.

. Pulmonary Hypertension in Adult Congenital Heart Disease Pulmonary arterial hypertension related to congenital heart disease (PAH-CHD), despite significant similarities in lung pathohysiology, differs significantly from other types of PAH in terms of mechanism of onset, natural history and management.This book is intended as a comprehensive, practically oriented reference on pulmonary hypertension within the context of adult congenital heart disease (ACHD).

Mistakes and pitfalls in the management of patients with PAH-CHD are often related to a lack of knowledge or expertise in this condition.Â Pulmonary Hypertension in Adult Congenital Heart DiseaseÂ will be a valuable resource and learning tool for all who care for patients with ACHD, both in tertiary practice and general cardiology.

The diagnostic approach is then addressed in detail, and the last section of the book is devoted to management options, from conservative approaches to interventional treatment and the concept of treat and repair..