tailieunhanh - Adult Congenital Heart Disease

The diagnosis and successful management of congenital heart disease represents one of the greatest triumphs of cardiovascular medicine and surgery in the 20th century. As a consequence, the number of adults with congenital heart disease – both with repaired and unrepaired lesions – has grown rapidly, and is now approaching one million in North America. Similar increases have occurred in Western Europe. The care of adults with congenital heart disease represents a major challenge. They include a large number of diverse anatomic malformations of varying severities at various stages of their natural history and with different degrees of anatomic repair | Adult Congenital Hea rt Disease A Practical Guide iugtnc 3 junwjld gMJ Adult Congenital Heart Disease A PRACTICAL GUIDE Adult Congenital Heart Disease A PRACTICAL GUIDE Michael A. Gatzoulis Royal Brompton Hospital and National Heart Lung Institute at the Imperial College London UK Lorna Swan Department of Cardiology Western Infirmary Glasgow UK Judith Therrien Sir M. Davis Jewish General Hospital McGill University Montreal Quebec Canada George A. Pantely Division of Cardiology Oregon Health and Science University Portland Oregon USA INCLUDING Pregnancy and Contraception chapter by Philip J. Steer FOREWORD BY Eugene Braunwald Blackwell .