Diagnosis and Management of Fetal Arrhythmias

Accurate diagnosis of fetal arrhythmias is a challenging and essential skill for obstetric practitioners. Diagnosis and Management of Fetal Arrhythmias is the first and only text devoted exclusively to these difficult-to-diagnose abnormalities, helping you distinguish similar rhythms and provide appropriate patient care. Abundant illustrations and dozens of videos online provide clear visual guidance for ultrasound diagnosis of fetal cardiac rhythms.

• Offers simple, straightforward methods to diagnose and triage fetal arrhythmias, written with the obstetric practitioner in mind.
• Highlights the well-organized text with more than 400 full-color images and line drawings.
• Features an extensive library of more than 50 video case examples included with eBook.
• Provides expert, focused coverage of a key area for obstetricians and residents, maternal-fetal medicine fellows and attendings, obstetric sonographers, and pediatric cardiologists.
• Includes access to an additional image-based chapter of arrhythmia case studies in the eBook.

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Table of Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Forward

Preface

Contributors

Contents

PART 1 Background

CHAPTER 1 Overview of Fetal Arrhythmias

CHAPTER 2 Before Diagnosis: Initial Evaluation of the Pregnancy With Fetal Arrhythmia

CHAPTER 3 Genetics of Fetal Arrhythmias

PART 2 Techniques to Analyze Fetal Rhythm

CHAPTER 1 Electronic Monitoring

CHAPTER 2 Echocardiography

CHAPTER 3 Magnetocardiography

PART 3 Presentation and Diagnosis of Fetal Arrhythmias

CHAPTER 1 Ectopy

CHAPTER 2 Supraventricular Tachyarrhythmias

CHAPTER 3 Ventricular Tachycardias

CHAPTER 4 Atrioventricular Block and Structural Cardiac Defects

CHAPTER 5 Immune-Mediated Atrioventricular Block

CHAPTER 6 Channelopathies

PART 4 Treatment of Fetal Arrhythmias

Chapter 1 Treatment of Supraventricular Tachyarrhythmias

CHAPTER 2 Treatment of Ventricular Tachycardias

CHAPTER 3 Treatment of Immune-Mediated Atrioventricular Block

PART 5 Care of the Pregnancy at Risk for Maternal or Fetal Arrhythmia

CHAPTER 1 The Inherited Arrhythmia Syndromes

CHAPTER 2 The Anti-Ro/SSA Positive Pregnancy

CHAPTER 3 Delivery Planning

PART 6 Fetal Arrhythmias: Future Directions

CHAPTER 1 The Elusive Fetal Electrocardiogram

CHAPTER 2 Magnetocardiography for the Fetus at Risk for Stillbirth

CHAPTER 3 The Fetal Pacemaker

CHAPTER 4 Diagnosis from a Distance: Telecardiology in the Evaluation of Fetal Arrhythmias

Case Studies

INDEX