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Cardiac Physiology

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A basic understanding of cardiovascular physiology is fundamental to the comprehension of the conditions and pharmacologic mechanisms described throughout this Handbook. This chapter will provide an overview of cardiovascular physiology while highlighting the unique aspects of the neonatal and pediatric heart. While not intended to be an exhaustive review, the chapter should serve to familiarize the reader with concepts, such as cardiac structure and function, electrophysiology, shunt lesions, contractility, preload and afterload, and clinical measures of cardiac function, to be discussed in greater detail in other chapters.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Brian Feingold MD, MS

  2. Cardiac Intensive Care Division, The Heart Institute, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Ricardo Munoz MD, FAAP, FCCM, FACC

  3. Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Ryan Flanagan MD

  4. Department of Pediatrics, Womack Army Medical Center, 2817 Reilly Road, Fort Bragg, NC, USA

    Ryan Flanagan MD

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  1. Brian Feingold MD, MS
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  2. Ricardo Munoz MD, FAAP, FCCM, FACC
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  3. Ryan Flanagan MD
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Correspondence to Ryan Flanagan MD .

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  1. Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    Ricardo Munoz

  2. Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, USA

    Eduardo M. da Cruz

  3. Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    Carol G. Vetterly

  4. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, USA

    David S. Cooper

  5. Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    Donald Berry

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Feingold, B., Munoz, R., Flanagan, R. (2014). Cardiac Physiology. In: Munoz, R., da Cruz, E., Vetterly, C., Cooper, D., Berry, D. (eds) Handbook of Pediatric Cardiovascular Drugs. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2464-1_1

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