The Heart and Circulation in the Newborn and Infant

Abstract

This book evolved from a recent symposium on the circulatory problems of the newborn sponsored by the Chicago Heart Association. Participating in the symposium were physicians eminently qualified in neonatal cardiopulmonary physiology and surgery. The papers are organized into six broad topics, which initially review the course of physiologic events from the fetus to the infant, then proceed to a consideration of current information related to the responses of the neonatal circulatory system to cardiac malformations.