Echocardiography in Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease: From Fetus to Adult - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470674644 ISBN 13: 9780470674642

Synopsis

This comprehensive textbook on the echocardiographic assessment of pediatric and congenital heart disease has been updated for a second edition with an emphasis on new technologies. This highly-illustrated full-color reference contains over 1200 figures, and offers over 600 video clips on a companion website. * Fully updated, with new chapters on the assessment of the post-Fontan procedure patient and on pregnancy and heart disease * Each lesion chapter includes new section highlighting the key elements of the echocardiogram(s) * Written by experts from the leading centers around the world, with numerous new authors * Revision emphasizes new technologies and quality of images * Comprehensive content contains overview of ultrasound physics, discussion of laboratory set-up, protocol for a standard pediatric echocardiogram and quantitative methods of echocardiographic evaluation, including assessment of diastolic function * Also includes special techniques and topics including 3D echocardiography, intraoperative echocardiography, and fetal echocardiography

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Echocardiography is essential in the practice of pediatric cardiology. A clinical pediatric cardiologist is expected to be adept at the non–invasive diagnosis of congenital heart disease and those who plan to specialize in echocardiography will need to have knowledge of advanced techniques.

Echocardiography in Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease addresses the needs of trainees and practitioners in this field, filling a void caused by the lack of material in this fast–growing area. This new title comprehensively covers the echocardiographic assessment of congenital heart disease, from the fetus to the adult, plus acquired heart disease in children.

Topics covered include:

• ultrasound physics
• laboratory set–up
• a protocol for a standard pediatric echocardiogram
• quantitative methods of echocardiographic evaluation, including assessment of diastolic function
• in depth coverage of congenital cardiovascular malformations
• acquired pediatric heart disease
• topics of special interest, such as 3D echocardiography, transesophageal echocardiography, and fetal echocardiography

The approach of this book is a major advancement for educational materials in the field of pediatric cardiology, and greatly enhances the experience for the reader. An accompanying DVD with moving images of the subjects covered in the textbook will further enhance the learning experience.

About the Author:

Wyman W. Lai, Mount Sinai Medical Center, USA

Luc Mertens, University Hospital Leuven, Belgium

Meryl S. Cohen, The Children′s Hospital of Philadelphia, USA

Tal Geva, Children′s Hospital Boston, USA

About this edition

• Publication date: 1886
• ISBN 10: 0470674644
• ISBN 13: 9780470674642
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 928