Fetal Echocardiography

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.

New to this Edition

Three new chapters cover first trimester fetal echocardiography, 3D fetal echocardiography, and fetal intervention, all incorporating the newest technologies and treatments.
Companion CD features video clips of scanning techniques plus 260 study questions, sortable by chapter, which you can use to help prepare for the ARDMS certification exam in fetal echocardiography.
Presents the latest in color and Doppler imaging, demonstrating scanning as it actually appears in the clinical setting.
Evolve Online Resources includes an image collection of over 400 illustrations from the text.

Related Titles

Textbook of Clinical Echocardiography, 3rd Edition

Contents

1. Embryology and Physiology of the Fetal Heart

2. Scanning: Indications and Technique

3. Cardiac Malposition

4. Atrial Septal Defects

5. Ventricular Septal Defects

6. Atrioventricular Septal Defects

7. Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome

8. Hypoplasia of the Right Ventricle

9. Univentricular Heart

10. Aortic Stenosis and Pulmonary Stenosis

11. Coarctation of the Aorta

12. Ebstein Anomaly

13. Tetralogy of Fallot

14. Persistent Truncus Arteriosus

15. Complete and Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries

16. Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection

17. Double-Outlet Right Ventricle and Double-Outlet Left Ventricle

18. Congenital Cardiac Masses

19. Cardiosplenic Syndromes

20. Fetal Cardiomyopathies

21. Fetal Dysrhythmias

22. First Trimester Fetal Echocardiography

23. 3D Fetal Echocardiography

24. Prenatal Intervention in the Fetus with Cardiac Disease



Author Information
By Julia A. Drose, BA, RDMS, RDCS, RVT, Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, Chief Sonographer, Divisions of Diagnostic Ultrasound and Prenatal Diagnosis & Genetics, University of Colorado Hospital, Denver, CO.