This highly illustrated, well-written and beautifully produced text is aimed at cardiologists and internal medical doctors, whether qualified or in-training, who are not specialized in the field of congenital heart disease, who will, nevertheless, meet these patients more and more often in their daily practice. The complicated subject of congenital

Jana Popelová MD PhD Associate Professor of Medicine, Director, Program of Congenital Heart Disease in Adults, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Hospital Na Homolce, Prague, Czech Republic.

Erwin Oechslin MD FRCPC FESC Director, Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, University Health Network/Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, USA.

Harald Kaemmerer MD VMD FESC Professor of Internal Medicine, Deutsches Herzzentrum München, Klinik für Kinderkardiologie und Angeborene Herzfehler, Münche, Germany.

Martin G St John Sutton FRCP FAHA FACC FESC FASE John W Bryfogle Professor of Cardiac Imaging, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Division of Cardiology, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

1. History 2. Prevalence of Congenital Heart Failure in Adults 3. Atrial Septal Defect 4. Patent Foramen Ovale and Paradoxical Embolization 5. Atrioventricular Septal Defect 6. Ventricular Septal Defect 7. Tetraology of Fallot 8. Coarctation of the Aorta 9. Bicuspid Aortic Valve and Congenital Aortic Disease 10. Pulmonary Stenosis 11. Transposition of the Great Arteries 12. Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries 13. Patent Ductus Arteriosus 14. Ebstein Anomaly of the Tricuspid Valve 15. Functionally Single Ventricle, Fontan Circulation 16. Congenital Heart Disease with Cyanosis 17. Pulmonary Atresia 18. Congenital Anomalies of the Coronary Arteries 19. Persistent Left Upper Vena Cava 20. Antomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection. 21. Psychosocial Problematic 22. Impairment of the Heart After Operation in Childhood