The Natural and Modified History of Congenital Heart Disease

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One of the MUST READ books in pediatric cardiology!!!
This book gives a nice historical perspective of each of the common lesions a pediatric cardiologist faces in daily practice. It will take you through the morphology of each lesion, the diagnostic tools used, the available treatment options, the short-term and long-term outcomes, and survival curves.

Upon reading each chapter, you have a comprehensive understanding of why we manage certain diseases the way we do today. I think it's important to know what had been tried previously and what failed so that the field can continue to advance. If you want a book citing multicenter clinical trials and to tell you the advantages of an ACE-I over ARB in heart failure, this is not the book for you. However, if you want a read that will strengthen your true understanding of the cardiac conditions we treat and how we arrived to where we are today, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK. ***IF YOU ARE A PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY FELLOW, THIS IS A MUST READ***


Better than I thought at first... but still not good
The information contained in the book is somewhat interesting, and exhaustive in scope. It is best used as a "history book" without clinical applications. This is not how I interpreted the title and was hoping for more information about the natural course of CHD and how our approaches and diagnostic abilities have modified that. That being said, even with the "history book" approach, I think this is still a fair book (at best). There too many things to consider when putting together a book with such lofty goals of the title, and, perhaps it is impossible to actually achieve those goals. This book tries to be so comprehensive that it becomes incomprehensible. It is EXTREMELY confusing in the way it is presented. This detracts significantly from what you can actually get out of the book. Dr. Freedom clearly knows what he is talking about, but he could have found a much better way to convey it.
And last, but not least, with all due respect to Dr. Freedom, the editing in this book is AWFUL!!! Too many mistakes to count in EACH chapter, wrong diagrams/labels. This book would barely be passable if written by an individual who did not speak English as a primary language.



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