Fetal Cardiology: Embryology, Genetics, Physiology, Echocardiographic Evaluation, Diagnosis, and Perinatal Management of Cardiac Diseases, Third Edition

Description:

The third edition of this established reference is the product of the combined efforts of many professionals – obstetricians, pediatric cardiologists, sonographers, molecular biologists, and medical physicists – and is a comprehensive guide intended for anyone interested in scanning the fetal cardiac system.

Table of Contents:

Preface

List of contributors

1. Cardiac morphogenesis

2. Cardiac anatomy and examination of specimens

3. Placental implantation and development

4. Placental circulations

5. Technical advances in fetal echocardiography

6. Epidemiology of congenital heart disease: Etiology, pathogenesis, and incidence

7. Indications for fetal echocardiography: Screening in low- and high-risk populations

8. Circulation in the normal fetus and cardiovascular adaptations to birth

9. Development of fetal cardiac and extracardiac Doppler flows in early gestation

10. Examination of the normal fetal heart using two-dimensional echocardiography

11. The three vessel and tracheal view

12. First and early second trimester fetal heart screening

13. Four-dimensional ultrasound examination of the fetal heart using spatiotemporal image correlation (STIC)

14. Three- and four-dimensional ultrasound in fetal echocardiography: A new look at the fetal heart

15. Magnetic resonance imaging: Techniques and normal fetal cardiovascular physiology

16. Magnetic resonance imaging: Abnormalities of the fetal circulation

17. Abnormal visceral and atrial situs and congenital heart disease

18. Cardiac malpositions and syndromes with right or left atrial isomerism

19. Pulmonary vein anomalies

20. Ebstein malformation and tricuspid valve pathology

21. Intracardiac shunt malformations

22. Atrioventricular septal defect (“atrioventricular canal”)

23. Double-inlet ventricle

24. Lesions of the right heart

25. Ventricular outflow tract anomalies (“conotruncal anomalies”)

26. Tetralogy of Fallot

27. Double-outlet right ventricle

28. Truncus arteriosus

29. Transposition of the great arteries

30. Left heart malformations

31. Aortic arch anomalies

32. Coarctation of the aorta and interrupted aortic arch

33. Diseases of the myocardium, endocardium, and pericardium during fetal life and cardiomyopathy in the fetus

34. Ultrasound examination of the fetal coronary circulation

35. The fetal venous system: Normal embryology, anatomy, and physiology and the development and appearance of anomalies

36. Fetal cardiac tumors

37. The fetal thymus

38. Extracardiac Doppler investigation in fetuses with congenital heart disease

39. Electrophysiology for the perinatologist

40. Fetal bradycardia

41. Fetal tachyarrhythmia

42. Cardiac diseases in association with hydrops fetalis

43. Congestive heart failure in the fetus

44. Twin-twin transfusion syndrome: Impact on the cardiovascular system

45. Fetal interventions for congenital heart disease

46. Doppler evaluation in fetal growth restriction

47. Venous flow dynamics: Intrauterine growth restriction and cardiac decompensation

48. Evaluation of fetal cardiac function: Techniques and implications

49. Genetics and cardiac anomalies

50. Cardiac defects in chromosomally abnormal fetuses

51. Associated anomalies in congenital heart disease

52. Chromosome microarray analysis of the fetal heart

53. Congenital cardiovascular malformations and the fetal and neonatal circulation

54. Intrapartum evaluation of fetal well-being

55. Intrapartum and delivery room management of the fetus with congenital heart disease

56. The neonate with congenital heart disease: Medical and interventional management

57. Infants with congenital heart disease in the first year of life

58. Neurodevelopment in congenital heart disease: Intrauterine Doppler and fetal and neonatal magnetic resonance imaging

59. Postnatal neurodevelopment in congenital heart disease: Short- and long-term neurodevelopment and interventions

60. Genetic counseling in families with congenital heart defects

61. Cardiac disease in pregnancy

62. Maternal diseases and therapies affecting the fetal cardiovascular system

Index