Echocardiography in Congenital Heart Disease

Echocardiography in Congenital Heart Disease - a volume in the exciting new Practical Echocardiography Series edited by Dr. Catherine M. Otto - provides practical how-to-do-it guidance on echocardiography for an ever-growing number of pediatric and adult congenital heart disease patients. Drs. Mark B. Lewin and Karen Stout offer you definitive, expert instruction with a highly visual, case-based approach that facilitates understanding and equips you to accurately acquire and interpret images while avoiding pitfalls. Access the full text online at www.expertconsult.com along with cases, procedural videos, and abundant, detailed figures and tables that show you how to proceed, step by step, and get the best results. Author Info By Mark B. Lewin, Professor and Division Chief, Cardiology; Co-Director, Heart Center; Director, Prenatal Diagnosis and Treatment Program; Director, Cardiac Echo Laboratory and Karen Stout Table of Contents: Companion Series Congenital Heart Disease Guide: Table of Contents 1 The Pediatric Transthoracic Echocardiogram 2 The Fetal Echocardiogram 3 Echo in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory 4 Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE) 5 Shunting Lesions 6 Atrioventricular Canal Defects 7 Conotruncal Lesions 8 Transposition of the Great Arteries 9 Venous Anomalies 10 Single Ventricle Lesions 11 Right Heart Anomalies 12 Left Heart Anomalies 13 Myocardial Pathology 14 Kawasaki Disease: Echocardiographic Assessment 15 Thromboembolic phenomena and vegetations 16 Implications of pediatric renal, endocrine and oncologic disease 17 Post-cardiac transplant echocardiographic assessment