Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents: History of paediatric hydrology cardiology -- Terminology -- Anatomy -- The pulmonary circulation -- The structure and function of the systematic circulation -- Incidence, mortality, and natural history -- The aetiology of congenital heart disease -- molecular biology and cardiac development -- Myocardium and development -- Clinical presentation of heart disease in infants and children -- The chest radiograph -- Diagnostic electrocardiograhy -- Cross-sectional Echocardiography and doppler -- Magnetic resonance imaging -- paediaric nuclear cardiology -- Cartheterization and angiocardiography -- Electrophysiological investigations and transcartheter ablation of cardiac arrhythmias -- Ventricular function -- Pulmonary vascular disease -- Lung function and exercise testing -- Embryology of the heart -- Physiology of the developing human fetal heart -- Prenatal detection of congenital heart disease -- Syndromes of myocardial ischaemia and persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn -- Persistent arterial duct in the preterm infant -- Decision making in medical and surgical management -- Management of arrhythmias -- Interventional catherization -- Statistical analysis in pediatric cardiology -- Transplantation of the heart and lungs in children -- Isomerism of the artrial appendage -- Anomalous systemic venous return -- Pulmonary venous abnormalities -- Atrial septal defect -- Division of artrial chambers -- Atrioventricular spatial defect -- Ventricular spatial defect -- Double-inlet ventricle -- Tricuspid atresia and the fontan operation -- Atresia of the morphologically left atrioventricular orifice -- Straddling atrioventricular valves -- Disease of the tricuspid valve -- Mitral valvar anomalies and supravalvar mitral ring -- Pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum -- Hypoplastic left heart syndrome -- Fallot's tetralogy -- Tetralogy of fallot with pulmonary atresia -- Complete transposition -- Discordant atrioventricular connection and congenitally corrected transposition -- Double outlet ventricle -- Common arterial trunk -- persistent patency of the arterial duct -- pulmonary stenosis -- Congenital anomalies of the aortic valve and left ventricular outflow tract -- Anomalies of the coronary arteries -- Aorta coarctation and interrupted aortic arch -- Vascular ring and pulmonary sling -- Abnormal positions and relationships of the heart -- Cardiomyopathies -- Arteries-venous fistulas and related conditions -- Cardiac tumours -- Kawasaki disease -- Non-rheumatic inflation inflammatory heart disease -- acute rheumatic fever -- Chronic rheumatic fever -- Infective endocarditis -- Cardiological aspect of systemic disease -- Systemic hypertension - Paediatric cardiology in the tropics -- Cardiovascular risk factors in infancy and childhood -- Management of congenital heart disease in pregnancy -- Congenital heart disease in adolescents and adults -- Psychological aspects of congenital heart disease -- Social aspects of congenital heart disease -- Ethics in paedatric cardiology --