Management Procedures for Severe Cardiac Disease
Management Procedures for Severe Cardiac Disease Preprocedure An infant in difficulty in the first days of life because of heart disease has the potential for rapid deterioration. Too often, the…
Diagnostic Cardiac Catheterization and Angiography
Diagnostic Cardiac Catheterization and Angiography Anatomy Catheterization is rarely used to learn the basic anatomy of the heart. The diagnostic information necessary for most cardiac surgical procedures in neonates is…
Diagnostic Tools
Diagnostic Tools Chest Radiography Chest radiography is rarely diagnostic of specific cardiac lesions, but it is a relatively quick and relatively inexpensive method to identify lung disease and screen for…
Recognition of Clinical Features
Recognition of Clinical Features Only a few infants are born in hospitals equipped for all eventualities. Infants with serious heart anomalies require transportation to a specialized pediatric cardiac center for…
Prematurity
Prematurity The circulatory adjustments and myocardial biochemical changes at birth and in the neonatal period are modified in direct relation to the degree of prematurity. The muscular coat of the…
Fetal Cardiac Intervention
Fetal Cardiac Intervention Improvements in prenatal diagnostic techniques have led to renewed interest in fetal cardiac intervention. The restoration of more normal flow and pressure relationships in the developing heart…
Fetal Cardiology
Fetal Cardiology Extensive information about the circulatory physiology of the fetus and newborn has accumulated. The works of Barcroft (37), Dawes (38), Lind and associates (39), and Rudolph (40) should…
Long-Term Survival
Long-Term Survival This chapter focuses on infancy; however, discussions with parents concerning their newborn with a cardiac anomaly often quickly, and appropriately, move to the length and quality of life…
Infant Mortality
Infant Mortality Before aggressive intervention, Mitchell found that 2.3 of 1,000 live births died with cardiac problems in infancy (1). Infant cardiac mortality in developed countries has progressively declined over…
