Congenital Heart Diseases: The Broken Heart

Silke Rickert-Sperling, MD, is Professor of Cardiovascular Genetics at the Charité, Medical University Berlin and coopted professor at the Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Pharmacy of the Free University Berlin. She leads an interdisciplinary research group at the ECRC (Cardiovascular Genetics Group). Her research focuses on elucidating the molecular mechanisms as well as genetic parameters underlying cardiac development in health and disease. She hopes to combine knowledge of molecular etiologies and mechanisms to eventually improve preventive and therapeutic opportunities for patients. Robert Kelly, PhD, is Group Leader at the Developmental Biology Institute of Marseilles - Luminy in France. His groups research focuses on the cellular and molecular processes regulating development of these progenitor cells in the mouse and their contribution to the developing heart and craniofacial skeletal muscles. Dr Driscoll is Professor of Pediatrics, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. He is emeritus chair of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Mayo Clinic.

Section I: General introduction in cardiac development.- Section II: Different chapters covering the different types of congenital heart disease.- Section III: The overall perspective.

"The book describes the different pathologies comprising congenital heart disease. ... The audience is adult or pediatric cardiologists who care for patients with congenital heart disease. ... This is a great resource, especially geared for cardiologists or cardiology team members with an existing fundamental knowledge of CHD, as well as those engaged in the bench research side." (Shawn Ragbir, Doody's Book Reviews, March, 2016)