Table of Contents

1. Molecular developmental biology of the cardiovascular system
- Adriana C. Gittenberger-de Groot & Robert E. Poelmann

2. Developmental Cardiovascular Physiology
- Kiyoshi Hashigami-Shinn, Ruiping Ji & Colin K.L. Phoon

3. Vascularization of the Developing Heart: Implications for Congenital and Acquired Disease
- Robert J. Tomanek & Joseph K. Perloff

4. Noninvasive Imaging of Congenital Heart Defects
- Colin K.L. Phoon, Anne J.L. Chun & Monvadi B. Srichai

5. Novel Methods to Screen for Heart Disease in Infants
- Robert I. Koppel & William T. Mahle

6. Cardiac Catheterization
- Phillip Moore

7. Heritable Cardiac Channelopathies
- Michael J. Ackerman

8. The Practice of Perinatal Cardiology
- Lisa K. Hornberger & Stephen G Miller

9. Intracardiac Left to Right Shunt Lesions
- Craig Sable

10. Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connections
- Welton M. Gersony

11. Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction
- Sharon E. O'Brien

12. Right ventricular outflow tract obstruction
- Mark D. Parrish, Anita J. Moon-Grady, Jeffery Meadows

13. Non-Syndromic Conotruncal Anomalies
- Ellen Dees, H. Scott Baldwin, Thomas Doyle, David Bichell & Thomas P. Graham

14. Hypoplastic Left Ventricle
- Matthew A. Studer & Henri Justino

15. Ebstein Anomaly: A Disorder Involving the Right Ventricle and the Tricuspid Valve
-Patrick O'Leary, Frank Cetta & Joseph A. Dearani

16. Heart Transplantation
- Debra A Dodd

17. Congenital Heart Defects in Adults
- Fred M. Wu & Michael J. Landzberg

18. Pregnancy and Congenital Heart Disease
- Mary M. Canobbio & Reema Chugh

19. Neurodevelopmental aspects of Congenital Heart Defects
- William T. Mahle

20. Psychological aspects of congenital heart disease in children
- Elisabeth H.M. van Rijen & Elisabeth M.W.J. Utens

21. Psychological Aspects of Adults with Complex Congenital Heart Defects
- Graham J. Reid & Adrienne H. Kovacs

22. The exercise and rehabilitation needs of children and adolescents with congenital heart defects, and their parents
- Lynne Kendall

23. Frequency of Congenital Heart Defects in Various Regions of the World
- Diego F. Wyszynski

24. Epidemiological Studies of Congenital Heart Defects: Challenges and Opportunities
-Margaret A. Honein & Sonja A. Rasmussen

25. Congenital heart defects associated with genetic syndromes
- M.Cristina Digilio, Anna Sarkozy, Bruno Dallapiccola & Bruno Marino

26. The Genetic Basis of Nonsyndromic Cardiovascular Malformations
- John W. Belmont

27. Gene-Environment Interactions in the complex etiology of Congenital Heart Defects
- Mario A. Cleves & Charlotte A. Hobbs

28. Genetic Counseling for Congenital Heart Defects
- Angela E. Lin & Mary Ella Pierpont

29. Primary Prevention of Congenital Heart Defects
- Lorenzo D. Botto

30. Factors associated with increased resource utilization for congenital heart disease
- Jean Anne Connor & Kathy J. Jenkins

31. Health Care Costs of Congenital Heart Defects
- Sheree L. Boulet, Scott D. Grosse, Tiffany Riehle-Colarusso & Correa-Villaseñor

32. Insurability and Access to Health Care for Patients with Congenital Heart Defects Ruey
-Kang Chang & Thomas S. Klitzner

33. Transistion of Adults with Congenital Heart Disease into Adult Oriented Care
-Karen Kuehl & Amy Verstappen

34. End of Life Issues in Pediatric Cardiac Care
-R S Simpson & P N Cox

About the Author

Diego F. Wyszynski, MD, MHS, PhD is the Global Safety Director in the division of Global Regulatory Affairs and Safety at Amgen, Inc. in Thousand Oaks, CA

Thomas P. Graham, M.D. is a Professor of Pediatric Cardiology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN

Adolfo Correa-Villaseñor M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D. is a Medical Epidemiologist at the Birth Defects and Genetic Disease Division of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention