The Neonate with Congenital Heart Disease

With the realization that cardiac surgery is feasible and may be dramatically effective in selected small infants with congenital heart disease, interest in the diagnosis of these lesions has become more than academic. The problems of infants with heart disease are sufficiently numerous, and each is sufficiently complex, to warrant compiling a monograph on this subject. Drs. Rowe and Mehrizi are eminently qualified for this task because of their long-term interest and experience in these questions. The first quarter of this monograph (eight chapters, 123 pages) is concerned with general topics including anatomy, incidence, physiology, and diagnostic tools. The individual lesions usually encountered are covered in chapters 9 to 34 (266 pages). The final four chapters cover pertinent related topics. No significant topic is left out. Monographs covering many subtopics have a tendency to become bare-bones outlines. This is not the case with this book. No pertinent facts are left