Practical Pediatric Cardiology Case-Based Management of Potential Pi
This book is a collection of cases highlighting situations which can ensnare even the best cardiologist working with pediatric patients. Heart disease in children has a number of diagnostic traps for the unwary, and many of those involved in the specialty
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Practical Pediatric Cardiology
Alan G. Magee • Jan Till • Anna N. Seale Editors
Practical Pediatric Cardiology Case-Based Management of Potential Pitfalls
Editors Alan G. Magee Department of Paediatric Cardiology University Hospital Southampton Southampton Hampshire UK
Anna N. Seale Department of Paediatric Cardiology Birmingham Children’s Hospital Birmingham UK
Jan Till Department of Cardiology Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust London UK
ISBN 978-1-4471-4182-2 ISBN 978-1-4471-4183-9 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-4183-9
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We would like to dedicate this book to the children and their parents who place their trust in us. Although we are only human, it is our duty to appraise and evaluate our experiences so that we can provide the best possible care.
Preface
In an era when most essential information about the morphology, diagnosis, management and prognosis of heart disease in children and adolescents is so easily available on the Internet, is there any longer a place for textbooks? So rapid has been the progress in almost all aspects of medicine that most books are out of date by the time they are published. The results of drug trials or the efficacy of new devices is instantly available to health professionals, patients and families as soon as they appear in one of the many journals available online. Classical teaching from traditional or reference textbooks can be found in an instant. With this background, the publishers and editors have bravely taken on the challenge of delivering a new book devoted to ‘pifalls’ in diagnosis and management of heart disease in the young. The editors Jan Till, Alan Magee and Anna Seale are not only personal friends and current or former
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