Description
Elsevier Atlas of Pediatric Echocardiography 2021 Edition by Filip Kucera
About The Book
Written by Dr. Filip Kucera, a pediatric cardiology consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital, Atlas of Pediatric Echocardiography provides "next level" guidance for clinicians who want to improve their echocardiographic skills. It covers a wide range of levels, from a beginner to an advanced level. This highly illustrated atlas is an excellent resource not only for pediatric cardiologists and trainees in pediatric cardiology, but also neonatologists, pediatric intensivists, and pediatricians with an interest in echocardiography.
Contents
A. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
- Normal transthoracic echocardiogram in a child
- Segmental approach to congenital heart disease
B. CONGENITAL HEART DEFECTS
- Atrial septal defects
- Ventricular septal defects
- Atrio-ventricular septal defects
- Diseases of the mitral valve
- Diseases of the tricuspid valve
- Diseases of the left ventricular outflow tract
- Diseases of the right ventricular outflow tract
- Double outlet right ventricle
- Tetralogy of Fallot
- Transposition of the great arteries
- Congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries
- Truncus arteriosus
- Functionally single ventricle
- Patent ductus arteriosus and aorto- pulmonary window
- Coarctation and interruption of the aorta
- Vascular rings and pulmonary artery sling
- Pulmonary and systemic venous anomalies
- Congenital coronary artery abnormalities
C. ACQUIRED HEART DISEASES AND OTHER CONDITIONS
- Myocarditis
- Cardiomyopathies
- Kawasaki disease
- Rheumatic heart disease
- Infective endocarditis
- Pericardial disease
- Cardiac tumors
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Common genetic syndromes associated with heart disease