Heart Failure in Congenital Heart Disease: From Fetus to Adult /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Shaddy, Robert. E. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2011.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Internal medicine.; Cardiology.; Pediatrics.; Cardiac surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Internal Medicine.; Cardiac Surgery.

Survival outcomes for patients with congenital heart disease have greatly improved over the last two decades. Because of better and longer survival in these patients who often have abnormal ventricular morphology, the incidence of heart failure in this patient population has also increased. Although...