Pediatric Cardiology and Hypertension: A Textbook on Heart Disease in Infants, Children, and Adolescents, with Care Across Every Stage of Development by MEDVINE ACADEMIC

Nearly 1 in 100 babies in the United States is born with a heart defect. Pediatric hypertension is also increasingly recognized as an early cardiovascular risk that may begin well before adulthood. For clinicians, trainees, and pediatric care teams, these realities create a demanding clinical challenge: pediatric cardiovascular disease does not always arrive as a confirmed diagnosis. It often arrives as uncertainty Pediatric Cardiology and Hypertension gives readers a development-aware, physiology-based method for understanding cardiovascular disease in infants, children, and adolescents. It does not treat pediatric cardiology as a collection of isolated lesion names or pediatric hypertension as numbers on a chart. It connects age, anatomy, oxygenation, perfusion, rhythm, blood pressure, growth, imaging, family observations, emergency recognition, referral decisions, and long-term follow-up into one clinically usable framework. This is a medical textbook designed for both learning and clinical use. It helps students, residents as well as trainees build a durable foundation before patient care becomes complex. supports primary care clinicians, emergency clinicians, neonatal and pediatric teams, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, allied health professionals, and pediatric cardiology learners who need clearer reasoning when risk must be recognized, communicated, and acted on. Read more