Congenital Heart Defects

Congenital Heart Defects, or CHDs, are the most frequently occurring birth defect. In the US alone, over 25,000 babies are born each year with some form of CHD. In the last 20 years, medical advances and new surgical procedures have dramatically decreased the mortality rate of these abnormalities and led to a better understanding and treatment of CHDs in adults. This definitive work on the subject covers all aspects of CHD, under the editorship of a leading geneticist, cardiologist, and public health physician, and features contributions from 60 major authorities in the field. Coverage includes a broad range of topics on the development, epidemiology, genetics, diagnosis, management, prevention, and public health issues of CHDs. This book will be of interest to geneticists, epidemiologists, cardiologists, pediatricians, graduate students, researchers, and others interested in the treatment of individuals with CHDs.   Includes chapters on the diagnosis and magement of the most common CHDs as well as chapters on managing rare defects. Special chapter on genetic counseling tranlsates information on genes and the environment to the clinical setting Includes discussions of CHD prevention strategies, public health issues such as the costs of treatment and insurance coverage of CHDs Includes ethics discussions such as the issues surrounding end of life care in pediatric cardiac care Diego Wyszynski , Global Safety Director, Amgen, Inc., Edited by Thomas Graham , Professor, Division of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University, and Edited by Adolfo Correa-Villaseñor , Medical Epidemiologist, Birth Defects and Genetics Disease Division, Center for Disease Control and Prevention