Chapter 59 – Congenital Heart Disease医学英文原版高清电子书.pdfVIP

CHAPTER 59 CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE Charles D. Fraser, Jr., and Kathleen E. Carberry a parent was asked to serve as a biologic oxygenator using the history and other considerations technique of controlled cross-circulation; soon thereafter, the anatomy, terminology, and diagnosis mechanical, extracorporeal, heart-lung bypass pump was devel- perioperative care oped.2,3 With the aid of this ability to support the patient’s lesion overview circulation during intracardiac exploration, surgeons have single ventricle sequentially attacked almost every described congenital cardiac miscellaneous anomalies anomaly. The prospect of meaningful survival for patients born summary with otherwise devastating congenital cardiac lesions is now expected in most, if not all, cases. As a result of this success story, there is now a large and This chapter is designed to provide medical students, general growing population of adults with repaired or unrepaired CHD; surgery residents, and practicing general surgeons with a working estimates in the United States for 2005 placed the number of tool to aid in their understanding of the features of anatomy and adult patients surviving with repaired or palliated congenital