Includes bibliographical references and index.

The NADAS years at children's hospital -- Cardiology at children's hospital Boston: today and into the future -- Embryology -- Morphologic anatomy -- Segmental approach to diagnosis -- Dysmorphology and genetics -- Fetal and transitional circulation -- Congestive heart failure -- Hypoxemia -- Central nervous system sequelae of congenital heart disease -- Pulmonary hypertension -- History, growth, nutrition, physical examination, and routine laboratory tests -- Electrocardiography and introduction to electrophysiologic techniques -- Imaging techniques: echocardiography, magnetic resonance imaging, and computerized tomography -- Cardiac catheterization -- Assessment of ventricular and myocardial performance -- Exercise testing -- Sedation and anesthesia in cardiac procedures -- Intensive care unit -- Methodological issues for database development: trends -- Methodological issues in clinical research -- Contemporary pediatric cardiovascular nursing -- Innocent murmurs, syncope, and chest pain -- Preventive heart disease: dyslipidemia and hypertension (systemic) -- Rheumatic fever -- Kawasaki disease -- Cardiomyopathies -- Pericardial diseases -- Infective endocarditis -- Cardiac arrhythmias -- Ventricular septal defect -- Pulmonary stenosis -- Tetralogy of fallot -- Aortic outflow abnormalities -- Atrial septal defect -- Patient ductus arteriosus -- Coarctation of the aorta -- D-transposition of the great arteries -- Endocardial cushion defects -- Cardiac malpositions and the heterotaxy syndromes -- Mitral valve and left atrial lesions -- Hypoplastic left heart syndrome, mitral atresia, and aortic atresia -- Pulmonary atresia and intact ventricular septum -- Double-outlet right ventricle -- Single ventricle -- Tricuspid atresia -- Tricuspid valve problems -- Truncus arteriosus -- Total anomalous pulmonary venous return -- Aortopulmonary window -- Origin of a pulmonary artery from the aorta (hemitruncus) -- "Corrected" transposition of the great arteries -- Vascular fistulae -- Coronary artery anomalies -- Vascular rings and slings -- Cardiac tumors -- Adult congenital heart disease -- Neonatal and infant cardiac surgery -- Surgical management of the patient with the univentricular heart -- Minimally invasive and robotically assisted cardiovascular surgery, and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation -- Current and future cardiovascular organ and tissue replacement therapies -- Cardiac excitability and heritable arrhythmias.