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Fetal Echocardiography

  • 2nd Edition - March 25, 2009
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Julia A. Drose
  • Language: English

Perfect for both the novice learning to perform fetal echocardiography, as well as the expert needing more details of various anomalies, this comprehensive text/atlas covers… Read more

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Description

Perfect for both the novice learning to perform fetal echocardiography, as well as the expert needing more details of various anomalies, this comprehensive text/atlas covers everything you need to know. It incorporates a practical, multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis and management with contributors from various medical specialties. You’ll find complete information on physiology, detailed guidelines on how to perform a fetal echocardiogram, and highly illustrated coverage of various congenital heart abnormalities. Full-color images, coverage of the latest technologies, and a new companion CD keep you up to date with the latest in this fast-changing field.

Key features

  • “How-to” details include scanning protocols, the correct equipment to use, and technical and anatomical limitations.
  • Normal anatomy, variants, and common pitfalls in scanning and diagnosis are presented.
  • Coverage of congenital heart abnormalities includes how the conditions look on scans, which scanning views and modalities to use, differential diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment.
  • Thoroughly covers every topic on the ARDMS certification exam in fetal echocardiography, making your study more efficient and effective.

Readership

Sonographers, pediatric cardiologists, radiologists, obstetricians, and perinatologists

Table of contents

1. Embryology and Physiology of the Fetal Heart 2. Scanning: Indications and Technique 3. Cardiac Malposition 4. Atrial Septal Defects5. Ventricular Septal Defects6. Atrioventricular Septal Defects 7. Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome 8. Hypoplasia of the Right Ventricle 9. Univentricular Heart 10. Aortic Stenosis and Pulmonary Stenosis11. Coarctation of the Aorta 12. Ebstein Anomaly 13. Tetralogy of Fallot 14. Persistent Truncus Arteriosus15. Complete and Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries16. Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection17. Double-Outlet Right Ventricle and Double-Outlet Left Ventricle18. Congenital Cardiac Masses19. Cardiosplenic Syndromes 20. Fetal Cardiomyopathies 21. Fetal Dysrhythmias 22. First Trimester Fetal Echocardiography23. 3D Fetal Echocardiography24. Prenatal Intervention in the Fetus with Cardiac Disease

Review quotes

"Each chapter details the conditions associated with the anomaly and then describes the treatments offered and their prognosis. Every chapter is extremely wellreferenced and thus enables further studies. Enclosed within the book is an excellent CD providing video clips of the techniques described in the text, which leads to greater understanding and also a series of questions relating to each chapter... My current medical students report that this book is very popular and especially useful for revision." Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, April 2010

"This book is a good addition to a departmental book shelf, for use when a cardiac defect is suspected. It is also helpful for anyone studying the fetal heart in depth, as the questions will enable them to test themselves prior to formal examinations."Gill Harrison, Senior Lecturer / Ultrasound Programme Director, City University London

Product details

  • Edition: 2
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 26, 2009
  • Language: English

About the author

JD

Julia A. Drose

Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, Chief Sonographer, Divisions of Diagnostic Ultrasound and Prenatal Diagnosis & Genetics, University of Colorado Hospital, Denver, CO