A Practical Guide to Fetal Echocardiography: Normal and Abnormal Hearts

Covering every aspect of fetal heart examination and all major cardiac malformations, A Practical Guide to Fetal Echocardiography is widely acknowledged as the definitive text in this challenging field. This award-winning title clearly depicts examples of commonly seen abnormalities and day-to-day cases, as well as rare pathology. Authored by renowned experts, the fully updated fourth edition is a lavishly illustrated, easy-to-read text designed to serve as a comprehensive reference for all practitioners involved in cardiac imaging.

• Features significant revisions including several new chapters, new artwork, and updated reference lists.
• Discusses disorders in terms of the ultrasound findings with key points summarized at the end of each chapter. Images are accompanied by clear, colorful schematic drawings that depict cardiac abnormalities.
• Features the addition of Approach to Diagnosis, an algorithm at the end of each chapter to assist providers in reaching the proper diagnosis.
• Includes numerous tables that outline common and differentiating features of various cardiac malformations.
• Covers the technical aspects of the cardiac exam in the first half of the text; the second half features detailed discussions of fetal cardiac malformations, each presented in a practical, methodical format that includes the definition, spectrum of disease and incidence, the use of gray scale, color Doppler, 3D and early gestation ultrasound in diagnosis, followed by the differential diagnosis, prognosis, and outcome.
• Features a practical, concise, easy-to-use format, making it indispensable for both physicians and sonographers in the detection of congenital heart disease.
• Winner of British Medical Association Awards 2016: BMA Medical Book of the Year and Obstetrics and Gynecology - First Prize.

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Table of Contents:

• Section one General Aspects
• Chapter 1 • Epidemiology of Congenital Heart Disease

• Chapter 2 • Genetic Aspects of Congenital Heart Disease

  Chapter 3 • Embryology of the Heart

  Chapter 4 • Cardiac Anatomy

  Section two Technical Aspects

  Chapter 5 • Guidelines for Fetal Cardiac Imaging

  Chapter 6 • Fetal Situs

  Chapter 7 • The Cardiac Chambers

  Chapter 8 • The Great Vessels

  Chapter 9 • The Three-Vessel-Trachea View

  Chapter 10 • The Venous System

  Chapter 11 • Fetal Heart in Early Gestation

  Chapter 12 • Grayscale in Fetal Cardiac Imaging

  Chapter 13 • Color Doppler in Fetal Cardiac Imaging

  Chapter 14 • Spectral Doppler in Fetal Cardiac Imaging

  Chapter 15 • M-Mode in Fetal Cardiac Imaging

  Chapter 16 • Three- and Four-Dimensional Ultrasound in Fetal Cardiac Imaging

  Chapter 17 • Biometry in Fetal Cardiac Imaging

  Chapter 18 • Fetal Cardiac Function

  Section three The Abnormal Heart

  Chapter 19 • Atrial Septal Defects

  Chapter 20 • Ventricular Septal Defects

  Chapter 21 • Atrioventricular Septal Defects

  Chapter 22 • Double Inlet Ventricle

  Chapter 23 • Tricuspid Atresia

  Chapter 24 • Ebstein Anomaly and Tricuspid Valve Dysplasia

  Chapter 25 • Tricuspid Valve Regurgitation

  Chapter 26 • Pulmonary Stenosis

  Chapter 27 • Pulmonary Atresia with Intact Ventricular Septum

  Chapter 28 • Tetralogy of Fallot

  Chapter 29 • Pulmonary Atresia with Ventricular Septal Defect

  Chapter 30 • Absent Pulmonary Valve Syndrome

  Chapter 31 • Aortic Stenosis and Bicuspid Aortic Valve

  Chapter 32 • Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome and Critical Aortic Stenosis

  Chapter 33 • Coarctation of the Aorta

  Chapter 34 • Interrupted Aortic Arch

  Chapter 35 • Common Arterial Trunk

  Chapter 36 • Double-Outlet Right Ventricle

  Chapter 37 • Transposition of the Great Arteries

  Chapter 38 • Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries

  Chapter 39 • Right Aortic Arch, Double Aortic Arch, and Aberrant Subclavian Artery

  Chapter 40 • Abnormal Fetal Heart Position

  Chapter 41 • Fetal Heterotaxy Syndrome

  Chapter 42 • Anomalies of Systemic Venous Connections

  Chapter 43 • Anomalies of Pulmonary Venous Connections

  Chapter 44 • Fetal Cardiomyopathies

  Chapter 45 • Fetal Cardiac Tumors

  Chapter 46 • Fetal Arrhythmias

  Chapter 47 • Rare Cardiac Anomalies

  Appendix • Graph Legends

  Index