This 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.

Contents

1. Congenital Heart Disease: Incidence, Risk Factors, and Prevention
2. Genetic Aspects of Congenital Heart Defects
3. Prenatal Screening for Congenital Heart Disease
4. General Anatomic Landmarks of the Fetal Heart
5. The Cardiac Chambers
6. The Great Vessels
7. Color Doppler in Fetal Echocardiography
8. Pulsed Doppler Echocardiography
9. Three-Dimensional Fetal Echocardiography: Basic and Advanced Applications
10. Fetal Echocardiography in Early Gestation
11. Aortic Stenosis and Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
12. Coarctation of the Aorta and Interrupted Aortic Arch
13. Pulmonary Stenosis, Pulmonary Atresia, and Ductus Arteriosus Constriction
14. Ebstein Anomaly, Tricuspid Valve Dysplasia, and Tricuspid Regurgitation
15. Atrial, Ventricular, and Atrioventricular Septal Defects
16. Univentricular Atrioventricular Connection, Double Inlet Ventricle, and Tricuspid Atresia with Ventricular Septal Defect
17. Tetralogy of Fallot, Pulmonary Atresia with Ventricular Septal Defect, and Absent Pulmonary Valve Dyndrome
18. Common Arterial Trunk
19. Double Outlet Right Ventricle
20. Complete and congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries
21. Right Aortic Arch, Double Aortic Arch, and Aberrant Subclavian Artery
22. Fetal Heterotaxy, Left Atrial Isomerism, Right Atrial Isomerism, and Situs Inversus
23. Anomalies of Systemic and Pulmonary Venous Connections
24. Fetal Cardiomyopathies and Fetal Heart Tumors
25. Fetal Arrhythmias

Index

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