Section I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- The Nadas Years at Children's Hospital / Cardiology at Children's Hospital Boston: Today and Into the Future / Section II: DEVELOPMENTAL ANATOMY -- Embryology / Morphologic Anatomy / Segmental Approach to Diagnosis / Section III: DYSMORPHOLOGY -- Dysmorphology and Genetics / Section IV: NORMAL CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY -- Fetal and Transitional Circulation / Section V: PROBLEMS CAUSED BY HEART DISEASE -- Congestive Heart Failure / Hypoxemia / Central Nervous System Sequelae of Congenital Heart Disease / Pulmonary Hypertension / Section VI: TOOLS OF DIAGNOSIS -- History, Growth, Nutrition, Physical Examination and Routine Laboratory Tests / Electrocardiography and Introduction to Electrophysiologic Techniques / Imaging Techniques; Echocardiography: MRI, CT / Cardiac Catheterization / Assessment of Ventricular and Myocardial Performance / Exercise Testing / Section VII: ALLIED DISCIPLINES -- Sedation, Anesthesia in Cardiac Procedures / Intensive Care Unit / Methodological Issues for Data Base Development: Trends / Methodological Issues in Clinical Research / Pediatric Cardiovascular Nursing / Section VIII: ACQUIRED HEART DISEASE -- Common Outpatient Problems: Innocent Murmur, Chest Pain, Syncope / Preventive Heart Disease: Hypertension (systemic) and Dyslipidemia in Childhood and Adolescence / Rheumatic Fever / Kawasaki Syndrome / Cardiomyopathies / Pericardial Diseases / Infective Endocarditis / Cardiac Arrhythmias / Section IX: CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE -- Ventricular Septal Defect / Pulmonary Stenosis / Tetralogy of Fallot / Aortic Outflow Abnormalities / Atrial Septal Defect / Patent Ductus Arteriosus / Coarctation of the Aorta / D-Transposition of the Great Arteries / Endocardial Cushion Defects / Cardiac Malpositions and the Heterotaxy Syndromes / Mitral Valve and Left Atrial lesions / Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, Mitral Atresia and Aortic Atresia / Pulmonary Atresia with Intact Ventricular Septum / Double-Outlet Right Ventricle / Single Ventricle / Tricuspid Atresia / Tricuspid Valve Problems / Truncus Arteriosus / Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return / Aortopulmonary Window / Origin of a Pulmonary Artery from the Aorta (Hemitruncus) / 'Corrected' Transposition of the Great Arteries / Vascular Fistulae / Coronary Artery Anomalies / Vascular Rings and Slings / Cardiac Tumors / Adult Congenital Heart Disease / -- Section X: SURGICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- Infant Cardiac Surgery / Management of the Univentricular Heart / Video/Robotic-Assisted Thoracic surgery: Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation / Current and Future Cardiovascular Organ and Tissue Replacement Therapies / Section XI: THE FUTURE -- Cardiac Excitability and Heritable Arrhythmias / APPENDIX -- Principal Drugs Used in Pediatric Cardiology / INDEX.