Publication Date: September 15, 2009 | ISBN-10: 1405179279 | ISBN-13: 978-1405179270 | Edition: 1
- Evaluates the natural history of congenital heart lesions as a background to finding out if and how much treatment has improved outcomes
- Introduces and defines lesions, providing general information about its frequency, familial or syndromic associations, and associated congenital heart lesions
- Provides sections on pathological anatomy and physiology – important in determining outcomes
- Includes results of surgery, both in terms of survival and also in terms of event-free survival, that is, survival free of reoperation, cardiac failure, arrhythmias, and other late complications that are often seen