Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Dedication

Preface

Introduction

Section 1: Medical Issues of the Pediatric Heart

Chapter 1. Promethean Progress in Understanding the Pediatric Heart: From the Ancient Egyptian Heart and the Aristotelian Heart to the 20th Century Heart with the Blalock-Taussig Shunt: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
(Donald E. Greydanus, MD, DrHC, and Joav Merrick, MD, DMSc, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, MI, US, and others)

Chapter 2. Newborn Cardiology
(Monica Martin Goble, MD, Jay Yeh, MD, Johannes von Alvensleben, MD, Chaitanya Panchangam, and Premchand Anne, MD, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, US, and others)

Chapter 3. Cardiology: An Overview
(Thomas Austin Melgar, MD, and Elizabeth Doherty, MD, Department of Pediatrics, Adolescent and Internal Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, MI, US)

Chapter 4. Hypertension in Children: Current Concepts
(Vimal Master Sankar Raj, MD, and Donald E. Greydanus, MD, DrHC, Department of Pediatric Nephrology, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, Peoria, IL, US, and others)

Chapter 5. Common Pediatric Arrhythmias: Part I
(Premchand Anne, MD, and Harinder R. Singh, MD, Pediatric Cardiology, Ascension St. John Children’s Hospital, Detroit, MI, US, and others)

Chapter 6. Common Pediatric Arrhythmias: Part II
(Premchand Anne, MD, and Harinder R Singh, MD, Pediatric Cardiology, Ascension St. John Children’s Hospital, Detroit, MI, US, and others)

Chapter 7. Myocarditis in the Pediatric and Adolescent Population
(John D. Rowlett, MD, St. Joseph’s/Candler Healthcare System, Savannah, GA, US, and others)

Chapter 8. Hyperlipidemia in Children
(Manisha Ravi, and Premchand Anne, MD, College of Medicine, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, US, and others)

Chapter 9. Cardiovascular Complications of Obesity
(Stuart Covi, MD, and Premchand Anne, MD, Pediatric Cardiology, Ascension St. John Children’s Hospital, Detroit, MI, US)

Chapter 10. Pediatric Pulmonary Thromboembolic Disease
(John D. Rowlett, MD, Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Hospital Medicine, St. Joseph’s/Candler Healthcare System, Savannah, GA, US, and others)

Chapter 11. Emerging Therapies for Pediatric Thromboembolic Disease
(John D. Rowlett, MD, and Carson S. Villa, Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Hospital Medicine, St. Joseph’s/Candler Healthcare System, Savannah, GA, US, and others)

Chapter 12. Pompe Disease
(Stuart Covi, MD, and Premchand Anne, MD, Pediatric Cardiology, Ascension St. John Children’s Hospital, Detroit, MI, US)

Chapter 13. Sexual and Reproductive Health in the Adolescent Cardiac Patient
(Maria Demma Cabral, MD, Nneka Holder, MD, and Sadhana Dharmapuri, MD, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, MI, US, and others)

Chapter 14. Sleep Disorders in Children and Adolescents
(Ahsan Nazeer, MD, Lisa Campisi, PhD, Karen Lim, MD, Durre Shahwar and Nehdia Hashemi, MD, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Sidra Medicine, Ar-Rayyan, Qatar, and others)

Chapter 15. Sudden Cardiac Death in the Pediatric and Adolescent Population
(John D. Rowlett, MD, Wesley Arrison, PharmD, and Carson S. Villa, Director of Pediatrics, St. Joseph’s/Candler Healthcare System, Savannah, GA, US, and others)

Section 2: Chronic Disease, Palliative Care and Death

Chapter 16. Mental Health and Chronic Disease: Issues in Cardiovascular Disease
(Nelli El-Ghazal, PhD, Christina Helen Vlahos, PhD, Muhammad Waqar Azeem, MD, and Ahsan Nazeer, MD, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Sidra Medicine, Ar-Rayyan, Qatar, and others)

Chapter 17. Psychosocial Adaptation to Chronic Illness and Disability (CID) for Children and Adolescents: A Global Perspective
(Roger W. Apple, PhD, Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, MI, US)

Chapter 18. Physician Use of Brief Counseling Models in a Pediatric Outpatient Setting
(Roger W. Apple, PhD, and Katie White, Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, MI, US)

Chapter 19. Pediatric Palliative Care in Congenital Heart Disease: A Case-Based Approach in Infants and Children
(Natalie Kontos, DO, and Premchand Anne, MD, Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiology, Ascension St. John Children’s Hospital, Detroit, MI, US)

Chapter 20. Chronic Disease and the Dying Adolescent
(Donald E. Greydanus, MD, DrHC, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, MI, US)

Section 3: Chronic Disease, Palliative Care and Death

Chapter 21. About the Editors

Chapter 22. About the Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine (WMED), Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States

Chapter 23. About the Department of Pediatrics, Ascension St John Children’s Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, United States

Chapter 24. About the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel

Section 4: Index

Index