Step-By-Step Fetal Echocardiography

Overview

A Hands-On Guide to Fetal Echocardiography!

In Step-By-Step Fetal Echocardiography, pediatricians, radiologists, sonographers -- anyone involved in investigating fetal heart disease -- will find a portable, practical guide for working successfully with this cutting-edge technique.

Features:

• Authored by a highly respected specialist in the procedure
• Easily identified chapter headings provide for quick referencing
• Begins with a general overview of the fetal heart and circulatory system and moves on to basic procedures
• Offers concise, comprehensible descriptions and procedure-clarifying color photographs and other illustrations
• Accompanying CD has diagnosis-aiding multiple images

Table of contents

1. Embryology and Physiology of the Fetal Heart
2. Fetal Circulation
3. Fetal Congenital Heart Disease
4. Equipment and Anatomical Landmarks of the Fetal Heart
5. Echocardiographic Views
6. Normal Variants in Fetal Echocardiography

Biographical note

Rakesh Gupta, MD is chief of Non-Invasive Cardiology at the Echo & Color Doppler Centre, Sunder Lal Jain Hospital, Delhi, India.