Practical Interventional Treatment for Congenital Heart Disease

Author: Qin Yongwen
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: Interventional treatment for congenital heart disease is one of the rapidly developing new technologies in the past decade. Compared to traditional open-heart surgery, its prominent advantages include minimal trauma, rapid recovery, simple operation, good safety, no surgical scars, and comparable therapeutic effects to surgical treatment. This book consists of 22 chapters, introducing fundamental knowledge of congenital heart disease; applied anatomy for interventional treatment of congenital heart disease; catheterization laboratory and basic interventional techniques; ultrasound monitoring during occlusion of congenital heart disease; transcatheter closure of patent ductus arteriosus; transcatheter closure of atrial septal defect; transcatheter closure of ventricular septal defect; transcatheter occlusion of patent foramen ovale; percutaneous balloon aortic valveoplasty; percutaneous balloon pulmonary valveoplasty; interventional treatment of rare congenital heart diseases; prevention and management of complications in interventional treatment of congenital heart disease; and pacing therapy for pediatric congenital heart disease. The book combines theory with practice, presents content in an accessible manner, is richly illustrated, and is highly practical. It serves as a reference for clinical internal medicine physicians, cardiovascular specialists, internists and graduate students, catheterization laboratory staff, and physicians from related departments.