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Edited by James H. Moller and Julien I.E. Hoffman. 1004 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, Churchill Livingstone, 2000. $225. ISBN 0-443-07677-4.

As pediatric cardiology continues to evolve, the updating of older textbooks and the publication of new ones require keeping up with advances in surgical, diagnostic, and interventional (catheter-based) procedures. Rapidly expanding knowledge of normal and abnormal cardiac development and of the role of genetic factors in causing cardiac and vascular disease in children also requires frequent updating. Pediatric Cardiovascular Medicine attempts to do all this.

The book has four sections. Section I, which comprises seven chapters, is devoted to the scientific background of pediatric cardiology. The first chapter is a lucid, up-to-date review of normal and abnormal cardiac development. The . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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