Michael T. Ashworth

Pathology of Heart Disease in the Fetus, Infant and Child

Autopsy, Surgical and Molecular Pathology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Uniquely addresses the long overdue need for an authoritative, immersive approach to paediatric cardiac pathology. For general and paediatric pathologists, this book covers all aspects of diseases and malformations of the heart. Extensively illustrated, it approaches work from the fetus to the adolescent, including the effects of surgery.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 500
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 281mm x 228mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 1252g
• ISBN-13: 9781107116283
• ISBN-10: 1107116287
• Artikelnr.: 55193076

Autorenporträt

Michael T. Ashworth is a Consultant Paediatric Pathologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. He trained at University College Dublin, and takes special research interests in heart and pulmonary disease in children, and has written numerous papers, review articles and book chapters in these subjects.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The anatomy of the normal heart
2. Examination of the heart
3. Development of the heart
4. Congenital heart disease I
5. Congential heart disease II
6. Ischaemia and infarction
7. Cardiomyopathy
8. Inflammation of the myocardium, endocardium and aorta
9. The coronary arteries
10. Metabolic and storage disease
11. Pericardium
12. Fetal cardiovascular disease
13. Tumours
14. Heart transplantation
15. Sudden cardiac death in the young
Index.