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Personal Stories
Boydell, Kate. Big Hearted Man.
Troubador Publishing, Ltd: 2003.
ISBN: 1899293345
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Curnel, Melissa. Overcoming Challenges: Congenital Heart Defects . . . Life After Heart Surgery. Gorham Printing, 2001.
ISBN: 0970821409
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Galdonik, Rudy Wilson. Take Heart! True Stories of Life, Love, and Laughter. Broad Horizons Press, 2003.
ISBN: 0974185248
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Hatton, Jo. Future Conditional: My Heart/Lung Transplant. Yorkshire
Art Circus, 1996.
ISBN: 1898311161
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Jaworski, Anna Marie, ed. The Heart of a Mother. Baby
Hearts Press, 1999.
ISBN: 0965250814
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Mathieu, Patrick. What's Your Expiry Date?: Embrace Your Mortality—Live With Vitality. Patrick Mathieu Unlimited, 2005.
ISBN: 0973806400
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Noble, Matthew. One Beat At a Time-Living with Sudden Cardiac Death. Russell Douglas Publishing, 2005. ISBN: 0976943603.
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Russell, Kimberly. In a Heartbeat: A Baby's Heart, A Surgeon's Hands, A Life of Miracles. iUniverse, Inc., 2006. ISBN: 0595397719.
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Books For CHDers and Families
Jaworski, Anna Marie. Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome: A Handbook for
Parents. Baby Hearts Press,
1997.
ISBN: 0965250865
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Jaworski, Anna Marie. My Brother Needs an Operation. Baby Hearts Press, 1999.
ISBN: 0965250822
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Kramer, Gerri Freid, and Shari Maurer. The Parent's Guide to Children's
Congenital Heart Defects: What They Are, How to Treat Them, How to Cope With
Them. Three Rivers Press, 2001.
ISBN: 0609807757
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Lichtenberg, Maggie. The Open Heart Companion: Preparation and Guidance for Open-Heart Surgery Recovery. Open Heart Publishing, 2006.
ISBN: 0977606309
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McCue, Kathleen and Ron Bonn. How to Help Children Through a Parent's Serious Illness. St. Martin's Griffin, 1996.
ISBN: 0312146191
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Neill, Catherine A., Edward B. Clark (Contributor), and Carleen Clark. The
Heart of a Child: What Families Need to Know About Heart Disorders in Children.
2nd ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2001.
ISBN: 0801866367
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Wild, Cheryl J. Heart Defects in Children: What Every Parent Should
Know. John Wiley & Sons, 1998.
ISBN: 0471347353
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Zaret, Barry L., Moser Marvin, MD, and Lawrence S. Cohen (Ed.). Yale University School of Medicine Heart Book. William Morrow & Co, 1992.
ISBN: 0688097197 (available on-line)
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History of Surgery/Profiles of Surgeons
Miller, G. Wayne. King of
Hearts: The True Story of the Maverick Who Pioneered Open-Heart Surgery.
Times Books, 2000.
ISBN: 0812930037
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Ruhlman, Michael. Walk on Water: Inside an Elite Pediatric Surgery Unit.
Viking Press, 2003.
ISBN: 0670032018
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Thomas, Vivien T. Partners of the Heart: Vivien Thomas and His Work With
Alfred Blalock. Reprint ed. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.
ISBN: 0812216342
See also American Experience: Partners of the Heart (based on the story of Vivien Thomas).
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Medical Texts
Gillette, Paul C., and Arthur Garson, ed. Clinical Pediatric Arrhythmias. 2nd ed. W.B. Saunders Co., 1999.
ISBN: 0721666299
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Gatzoulis, Michael A., Gary D. Webb, and Piers E.F. Daubeney. Diagnosis and Management of Adult Congenital
Heart Disease. Churchill Livingstone: 2003.
ISBN: 0443071039
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Gersony, Welton M., and Marlon S. Rosenbaum. Congenital Heart Disease in the Adult.
McGraw Hill Professional Publishing, 2001.
ISBN: 0070329095
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Perloff, Joseph K., and John S. Child. Congenital Heart Disease in Adults. 2nd ed. W.B. Saunders Co., 1997.
ISBN: 0721629989
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Swan, Lorna, Michael A. Gatzoulis, and George Pantely. Adult Congenital Heart Disease: A Practical Guide. BMJ Publishing Group: 2005.
ISBN: 0727916688
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Walsh, MD, Edward P., J. Philip Saul, and John K. Triedman, MD, ed. Cardiac Arrhythmias in Children and Young Adults with Congenital Heart Disease. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Publishers: 2001.
ISBN: 0397587449
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Zipes, Douglas P., and Jose Jalife. Cardiac Electrophysiology: From Cell
to Bedside. 2nd ed. W.B. Saunders Co., 1995.
ISBN: 0721649416
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