Chronic Disease and Disability

Joav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc, (Medical Director, Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel; Division of Adolescent Medicine, KY Childrens Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Lexington, Kentucky, US; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem, Israel; Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Centers, Mt Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel; School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, US)

Preface; Introduction; Promethean Progress in Understanding the Pediatric Heart: From the Ancient Egyptian Heart and the Aristotelian Heart to the 20th Century Heart with the Blalock-Taussig Shunt: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants; Newborn Cardiology; Cardiology: An Overview; Hypertension in Children: Current Concepts; Common Pediatric Arrhythmias: Part I; Common Pediatric Arrhythmias: Part II; Myocarditis in the Pediatric and Adolescent Population; Hyperlipidemia in Children; Cardiovascular Complications of Obesity; Pediatric Pulmonary Thromboembolic Disease; Emerging Therapies for Pediatric Thromboembolic Disease; Pompe Disease; Sexual and Reproductive Health in the Adolescent Cardiac Patient; Sleep Disorders in Children and Adolescents; Sudden Cardiac Death in the Pediatric and Adolescent Population; Mental Health and Chronic Disease: Issues in Cardiovascular Disease; Psychosocial Adaptation to Chronic Illness and Disability (CID) for Children and Adolescents: A Global Perspective; Physician Use of Brief Counseling Models in a Pediatric Outpatient Setting; Pediatric Palliative Care in Congenital Heart Disease: A Case-Based Approach in Infants and Children; Chronic Disease and the Dying Adolescent; About the Editors; About the Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D; School of Medicine (WMED), Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States; About the Department of Pediatrics, Ascension St John Childrens Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, United States; About the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel; Index.