Congenital Heart Disease

Dr Richard Van Praagh is an internationally renowned pediatric cardiologist with a special interest in cardiac pathology and cardiac embryology. He is originally from Toronto and undertook training with the pathologist Jesse Edwards at the Mayo Clinic before moving to Children's Hospital Boston. Together with his wife Stella he has made seminal contributions to our understanding of the morphology of congenital heart disease. One of his most important contributions was the publication in 1972 of "Segmental approach to diagnosis in congenital heart disease”. Dr. Aldo Castaneda in a recent tribute to Dr. Van Praagh said the following: "Richard impressed me very much, as a renaissance type of individual. He is extremely intelligent and pursues many interests beyond cardiac pathology. His background in philosophy and mathematics, to mention just a few of his many talents, is remarkably broad and deep. His alert and inquisitive mind often races in various direction simultaneously. he is brilliant at conceptualizing embryologic, anatomic sequential developments and deducing their anatomical and functional consequences”.

• ?HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVEBrief History of the Cardiovascular System?CARDIOVASCULAR DEVELOPMENTEmbryology and Etiology?ANATOMIC AND DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACH TO DIAGNOSISMorphologic AnatomySegmental Anatomy?CONGENITAL HEART DISEASEThe Congenital Cardiac Pathology DatabaseSystemic Venous AnomaliesPulmonary Venous AnomaliesCor Triatriatum Sinistrum (Subdivided Left Atrium) and Cor Triatriatum Dextrum (Subdivided Right Atrium)Interatrial CommunicationsJuxtaposition of the Atrial AppendagesCommon Atrioventricular CanalDouble-outlet and Common-outlet Right AtriumTricuspid Valve AnomaliesMitral Valve AnomaliesInfundibuloarterial Situs Equations: How Normally and Abnormally Related Great Arteries are Built and the Importance of Infundibuloarterial Situs Concordance and DiscordanceVentricular Septal DefectsSingle VentricleSuperoinferior VentriclesAnomalous ifundibular Muscle BundlesTetralogy of FallotAbsence of the Subpulmonary Infundibulum with its Sequelae has been Misinterpreted as Common Aortopulmonary Trunk that Probably Does Not ExistTransposition of the Great ArteriesDouble-Outlet Right VentricleDouble-Outlet Left VentricleAnatomically Corrected Malposition of the Great ArteriesWhat Prevents and What Permits the Embryonic Great Arterial Switch?Infundibulo-Arterial Situs Equations and AnalysisThe Cardiac Conduction SystemThe Heterotxy Syndromes: Asplenia, Polysplenia, and with Normally Formed but Right-Sided Spleen