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Univentricular Congenital Heart Defects and the Fontan Circulation : Practical Manual for Patient Management
Univentricular Congenital Heart Defects and the Fontan Circulation : Practical Manual for Patient Management
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ISBN No.: 9783031362071
Pages: x, 370
Year: 202401
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 220.79
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

The Univentricular Heart: past, present and future.- Part I Anatomy & epidemiology of the functionally univentricular heart. - The anatomical substrates of the univentricular heart.- Epidemiology of univentricular hearts.- Part II Management of the fetus and neonate with a univentricular heart. - Prenatal Diagnosis of the functionally univentricular heart.- Postnatal management and pre-operative assessment of the univentricular patient.- Imaging to aid decision making in the neonate.


- Univentricular Heart: Decision Making in the Management of the Neonate.- Catheter Interventions in the Initial Palliation of Univentricular Hearts.- Comfort Care in Patients with a Single Ventricle.- Part III Surgical management. - History of the Fontan surgical procedure.- Early modifications of Fontan surgery and evolution of the total cavo-pulmonary connection (TCPC).- Staged approach to total cavo-pulmonary connection.- Classical Norwood Stage I and Modifications.


- Hybrid strategies for hypoplastic left heart syndrome and comprehensive stage II repair.- Part IV The Fontan physiology .- Determinants of cardiac output and exercise tolerance in the Fontan circulation.- Part V Follow up in childhood of Fontan patients. - Neuro-developmental outcomes of Fontan patients.- Follow-up in childhood of Fontan patients - Quality of life.- Anticoagulation strategies in the single ventricle.- Electrophysiology Considerations after the Fontan Operation.


- Managing the pulmonary circulation.- Fontan Failure in Children and Cardiac Transplantation.- Part VI Transition, education and lifestyle.- Transition to adult life.- Part VII Follow up in adult life. - Considerations when Developing a Multidisciplinary Adult Fontan Clinic.- Echocardiography and adult Fontan patient.- Cardiac MRI imaging in the Fontan patient.


- CT in patients with univentricular hearts and a Fontan circulation.- Physiological testing and basics of cardiac catheterisation in Fontan patients.- Fontan Patients: Psychological Support in Adult Life.- Pregnancy with an univentricular heart.- Factors impacting on the late outcome of the Fontan circulation.- Part VIII A multi-system disorder. - Electrophysiology considerations and management of arrhythmias after the Fontan Operation.- A multi-system disorder: Extracardiac complications.


- Part IX The Failing Adult Fontan patient. - The failing adult Fontan patient.- Catheter-Based Interventions in Adult Life for the Failing Adult Fontan Patient .- Surgical Interventions in Adult Fontan and Transplantation.- Palliative care strategies in adult patients.- Role of Mechanical Support for Failing Single Ventricle.- Pathological aspects of post- Fontan procedures.


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