Pediatric Cardiology and Hypertension: A Textbook on Heart Disease in Infants, Children, and Adolescents, with Care Across Every Stage of Development

Nearly 1 in 100 babies in the United States is born with a heart defect. Pediatric hypertension is also increasingly recognized as an early cardiovascular risk that may begin well before adulthood. For clinicians, trainees, and pediatric care teams, these realities create a demanding clinical challenge: pediatric cardiovascular disease does not always arrive as a confirmed diagnosis. It often arrives as uncertainty Pediatric Cardiology and Hypertension gives readers a development-aware, physiology-based method for understanding cardiovascular disease in infants, children, and adolescents. It does not treat pediatric cardiology as a collection of isolated lesion names or pediatric hypertension as numbers on a chart. It connects age, anatomy, oxygenation, perfusion, rhythm, blood pressure, growth, imaging, family observations, emergency recognition, referral decisions, and long-term follow-up into one clinically usable framework. This is a medical textbook designed for both learning and clinical use. It helps students, residents as well as trainees build a durable foundation before patient care becomes complex. supports primary care clinicians, emergency clinicians, neonatal and pediatric teams, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, allied health professionals, and pediatric cardiology learners who need clearer reasoning when risk must be recognized, communicated, and acted on. This is also a textbook about continuity. Pediatric cardiovascular care does not end with diagnosis, repair, discharge, or a single normal test. Children may need monitoring for growth, feeding, neurodevelopment, exercise tolerance, school participation, blood pressure, rhythm changes, residual lesions, pulmonary hypertension, coronary risk, family education, adolescent autonomy, and transition into adult-oriented cardiovascular care. The book keeps that full arc in view, from fetal circulation and neonatal transition through childhood, adolscence, and long-term follow-up. Inside, readers will find the structure expected from a serious professional reference: clinically focused figures, practical tables, decision-support pathways, focused clinical boxes, appendices, abbreviations, terminology, consolidated references, and a digital-copy page included in this edition. Pediatric Cardiology and Hypertension is for readers who need more than definitions. It is built to strengthen clinical interpretation: how to assess, how to prioritize, how to recognize danger, how to choose the next test, how to document concern, how to refer, and how to support safer care after the encounter. The next child may not arrive with a diagnosis. The presentation may be a sign, a symptom, a number, a family concern, or a change in baseline. This textbook helps readers understand what that finding may mean and what the next safe step should be.