A Practical Guide to Fetal Echocardiography: Normal and Abnormal HeartsThis simple and easy-to-use guide to fetal echocardiography will help physicians and sonographers obtain a complete evaluation of the normal and abnormal fetal heart. The book is written in a user-friendly style and thoroughly illustrated with ultrasound images accompanied by schematic drawings. This edition presents a comprehensive approach to the examination of the fetal heart and covers all major cardiac malformations. Chapters include color Doppler in fetal echocardiography, three-dimensional ultrasound in fetal echocardiography, first and early second trimester imaging of the fetal heart, and an updated genetics section. This book, written by internationally recognized experts in fetal echocardiography, is a must-have for physicians and sonographers interested in this field. |
Contents
Foreword | iv |
Complete and Congenitally Corrected Transposition | xvii |
Incidence Risk Factors | 1 |
Genetic Aspects of Congenital Heart Defects | 11 |
Right Aortic Arch Double Aortic Arch and Aberrant | 22 |
Prenatal Screening for Congenital Heart Disease | 23 |
The Cardiac Chambers | 44 |
The Great Vessels | 60 |
Color Doppler in Fetal Echocardiography | 77 |
Anomalies of Systemic and Pulmonary Venous Connections 326 | 115 |
Pulsed Doppler Echocardiography 90 | 120 |
Fetal Echocardiography in Early Gestation | 128 |
Aortic Stenosis and Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome | 138 |
Atrial Ventricular and Atrioventricular Septal Defects 206 | 16 |
Common Arterial Trunk 263 | 42 |