Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

Constantine Mavroudis, M.D. is the Medical Director of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery at Peyton Manning Children's Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is also Professor Emeritus of Surgery at Johns Hopkins University Medical School in Baltimore, Maryland. A past president of the Congenital Heart Surgeons' Society and the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association, Dr. Mavroudis is a renowed expert in the field of congenital heart surgery with a particular emphasis on arrhythmia surgery and coronary artery disease. Dr. Mavroudis has published over 500 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on congenital heart surgery. In addition to editing three prior editions of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, he has also edited the Atlas of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and the Atlas of Adult Congenital Heart Surgery.

Carl Backer, M.D. is the Chief of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery at UK HealthCare Kentucky Children's Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky and Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgeryat Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is a past President of the Congenital Heart Surgeons' Society and a current Director on the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. Dr. Backer is the newly appointed editor-in-chief of the World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery and current President of the Mayo Alumni Clinic Association. He has a strong clinical interest in vascular ring surgery, tracheal surgery, and pediatric heart transplantation. He has authored over 450 peer-reviewed articles and 105 book chapters. In addition to editing three prior editions of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, he has also served as co-editor of the Atlas of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, and Wilcox's Surgical Anatomy (4th edition).

Dr. Mavroudis and Dr. Backer worked together at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois from 1989 - 2008.

List of contributors

Foreword

Preface

A note on Nomenclature

 

1.            Development of the Heart and Great Vessels

 

Ram Kumar Subramanyan, Robert H. Anderson, Peter J. Gruber

 

2.            Genetics of Congenital Heart Disease

 

Peter J. Gruber

 

3.            Fetal Cardiac Physiology and Fetal Cardiac Intervention

 

Timothy S. Lancaster, Jacob R. Miller, and Pirooz Eghtesady

 

4.            Preoperative Diagnostic Evaluation

 

Barbara J. Deal, Amanda Hauck, Sabrina Tsao, Angira Patel, Simon Lee, and

Doff B. McElhinney

 

5.            Hybrid Procedures for Congenital Heart Disease

 

Hakan Akintuerk, Dietmar Schranz, Norbert Voelkel

6.            Anesthesia for the Patient with Congenital Heart Disease

 

H. Jay Przybylo

 

7.            Perioperative Care

 

Mjaye L. Mazwi, Carl L. Backer, John M. Costello, and Constantine Mavroudis

 

8.            Palliative Operations

                Carl L. Backer and Constantine Mavroudis

9.            Management of Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Bypass

 

Nicholas D. Andersen, James M. Meza, and Joseph W. Turek

 

10.          Pediatric Myocardial Protection

               

Sachin Talwar and Shiv Kumar Choudhary

 

11.          Patent Arterial Duct

 

                Elizabeth H. Stephens, Paul Tannous, Carl L. Backer, and Constantine Mavroudis

 

 

 

12.          Vascular Rings and Pulmonary Artery Sling

Carl L. Backer, Cynthia K. Rigsby, and Constantine Mavroudis

 

13.          Coarctation of the Aorta

 

Carl L. Backer, Joseph A. Dearani, and Constantine Mavroudis

 

14.          Interrupted Aortic Arch

 

Dilip S. Nath and Richard A. Jonas

 

15.          Atrial Septal Defect, Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection, and Scimitar Syndrome

 

Carl L. Backer, Paul Tannous, and Constantine Mavroudis

 

16.          Ventricular Septal Defect

 

Constantine Mavroudis, Carl L. Backer, and Robert H. Anderson

 

17.          Atrioventricular Septal Defects

 

Carl L. Backer and Constantine Mavroudis

 

18.          Common Arterial Trunk

               

                Constantine Mavroudis and Carl L. Backer

 

19.          Aortopulmonary Window and Aortic Origin of a Pulmonary Artery

 

Stephanie Fuller and Robert H. Anderson

 

20.          Isolated Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction

 

Ali Dodge-Khatami and Christopher E. Greenleaf

 

21.          Tetralogy of Fallot

 

Ali Dodge-Khatami, Peter Chen, and Constantine Mavroudis

 

22.          Tetralogy of Fallot with Pulmonary Atresia and Major Aortopulmonary Collaterals

 

Matthew Liava’a and Yves d'Udekem

 

23.          Ventricular to Pulmonary Artery Conduits

 

John W. Brown and Jeremy L. Herrmann

 

24.          Double-Outlet Right Ventricle

 

Constantine Mavroudis, Carl L. Backer, and Robert H. Anderson

 

25.          Transposition of the Great Arteries

               

Constantine Mavroudis and Carl L. Backer

 

26.          Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries

 

Tom R. Karl and Jeffery P. Jacobs

 

27.          The Functionally Univentricular Heart

 

Peter Sassalos, Ming-Sing Si, Jennifer C. Romano, Edward L. Bove, and

Richard G. Ohye

 

28.          Fontan Conversion

 

Constantine Mavroudis, Barbara J. Deal, and Carl L. Backer

 

29.          Ebstein Malformation

 

                Kimberly A. Holst and Joseph A. Dearani

 

30.          Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction

 

William M. DeCampli and Kamal K. Pourmoghadam

 

31.          Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

 

William M. DeCampli and Kamal K. Pourmoghadam

 

32.          Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome

 

Chunsoo Park and James S. Tweddell

 

33.          Aorto-Left Ventricular Tunnel

 

Jeremy L. Herrmann and Stephanie Fuller

 

34.          Congenital Anomalies of the Mitral Valve

 

Perry S. Choi and Sitaram M. Emani

 

35.          Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection

 

Rachel D. Vanderlaan and Christopher A. Caldarone

 

36.          Cor Triatriatum, Pulmonary Vein Stenosis, and Atresia of the Common Pulmonary Vein

 

Constantine D. Mavroudis, Robert H. Anderson, and Constantine Mavroudis

 

37.          Anomalous Systemic Venous Connections

 

Henry L. Walters, III and Ralph E. Delius

 

38.          Connective Tissue Disorders

 

Charles D. Fraser III, Trevor Ellison, Duke E. Cameron, Luca A. Vricella

 

39.          Coronary Artery Anomalies

 

Constantine Mavroudis, Ali Dodge-Khatami, and Carl L. Backer

 

40.          Cardiac Tumors

 

Rȕdiger Lange and Thomas Gȕnther

 

41.          Diseases of the Pericardium

 

Elizabeth H. Stephens and Victor O. Morell

 

42.          Surgical and Transcatheter Management of Arrhythmias

 

Barbara J. Deal, MD and Constantine Mavroudis, MD

 

43.          Pediatric Heart Transplantation

 

Charles B. Huddleston and Andrew C. Fiore

 

44.          Lung and Heart-Lung Transplantation

 

Charles B. Huddleston and Andrew C. Fiore

 

45.          Endocarditis in Patients with Congenital Heart Disease

               

Peter D. Wearden and Constantine Mavroudis

 

46.          Pediatric Mechanical Circulatory Support

 

                                Michelle Ploutz, Angela Lorts, and David L.S. Morales

 

47.          Adult Congenital Heart Disease

 

Maria Drakopoulou, Konstantinos Dimopoulos, Stamatia Prapa,

Darryl F. Shore, Stella Brili, and Michael Gatzoulis

 

48.          Bioethics in Congenital Heart Surgery

 

Constantine Mavroudis, Constantine D. Mavroudis, Thomas Cook,

Catherine L. Mavroudis, Allison Siegel, and Alex Golden

 

49.          Education in Congenital Cardiac Surgery

               

Constantine D. Mavroudis, Constantine Mavroudis, Carl L. Backer,

and Richard H. Feins