Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 – Observations on the Development of the Coronary Arteries in the Human Embryo (pp. 1-16)
Julio D. Civetta, Lilliam M. Valdes-Cruz and Raúl O. Cayré (School of Medicine, National University of Northeast, Corrientes, Argentina and others)
Chapter 2 – TGF-β1 and Estrogen Receptor Alpha in Coronary Intimal Hyperplasia in Pediatric Patients with Congenital Heart Disease (pp. 17-36)
Rocío Castilla, Matilde Otero-Losada, Angélica Müller, Francisco Azzato, Giuseppe Ambrosio and José Milei (Instituto de Investigaciones Cardiológicas, Buenos Aires and others)
Chapter 3 – New Diagnostic Techniques in Congenital Heart Disease (pp. 37-62)
Ana Maria de Dios, Judith Ackerman, Fernanda Biancolini and Julio Biancolini (Hospital Pedro de Elizalde, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Chapter 4 – Use of Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography in the Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Anomalies (pp. 63-84)
Augusto Pablo Bayol (Instituto de Cardiología de Corrientes)
Chapter 5 – Intrauterine Ductus Arteriosus Constriction: An Etiological Overview (pp. 85-112)
Paulo Zielinsky and Stefano Busato (Porto Alegre, Brazil)
Chapter 6 – Fetal Cardiac Arrhythmias: Diagnosis and Treatment (pp. 113-136)
Pedro O. Weisburd and Esteban Vázquez (Instituto de Cardiología de La Plata, Argentina)
Chapter 7 – Pulmonary Hypertension and Congenital Heart Diseases (pp. 137-164)
Gabriel Fernando Díaz Góngora (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia)
Chapter 8 – The Functionally Univentricular Heart: ―40 Years without a Subpulmonary Ventricle (pp. 165-202)
Mario Cazzaniga and Renata Revel-Chion (Madrid, España y Ferrara, Italia)
Chapter 9 – Restrictive Cardiomyopathy in Children (pp. 203-222)
Alejandra Villa and Marisa Di Santo (Hospital Garrahan y Fundacion Favaloro, Buenos Aires)
Chapter 10 – Therapeutic Intervention in Congenital Heart Disease (pp. 223-246)
Ana M. S. de Dios, Jesus Damsky Barbosa, Maria Fernanda Biancolini and Julio Cesar Biancolini (Hospital Pedro de Elizalde, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Chapter 11 – Hybrid Procedures for Congenital Heart Disease: Palliation of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, Closure of Muscular Ventricular Septal Defect and Stenting of Branch Pulmonary Arteries (pp. 247-262)
Alejandro R. Peirone and Carlos A. C. Pedra (Hospital Privado y Hospital de Niños de Cordoba. Instituto Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia, São Paulo, Brazil and others)
Chapter 12 – Strategy for Biventricular Outflow Tract Reconstruction for the Transposition of the Great Arteries with Ventricular Septal Defect and Left Ventricle Outflow Tract Obstruction: ―Rastelli Procedure‖ and the ―Newer Aortic Translocation Techniques (pp. 263-278)
Claudia Natalia Villalba, Mariela Mouratian and Horacio A. Capelli (Department of Cardiology, Hospital de Pediatría “Prof. Dr. Juan P. Garrahan” Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Chapter 13 – Adult Congenital Heart Disease: Problems and Perspectives (pp. 279-284)
Horacio Capelli and Mariela Mouratian (Department of Cardiology, Hospital de Pediatría, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Chapter 14 – Management of Cardiac Emergencies in Children with Congenital Heart Disease (pp. 285-304)
Guillermo A. Kohn Loncarica and Guillermo E. Moreno (Hospital Garrahan, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
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