Fetal Cardiology

Archer - Fetal cardiology
£37.95
£37.95
Authors/editors: Nick Archer and Nicky Manning
ISBN: 978-0-19-923070-9
Page count: 340
Publisher: Oxford UP
Publication year: 2009

Fetal cardiac assessment is a central part of managing many kinds of high risk pregnancies.There are relatively few full time fetal cardiologists, and as a result diagnosis and management of fetal cardiac disease continues to involve considerable input from a variety of professionals, who need easy access to succinct, up-to-date information on fetal cardiac anatomy, rhythm and function.

This handbook provides clinically relevant guidance in an easily-accessible and practical format which is idea for day-to-day use in the clinic. Written by authors with backgrounds in fetal diagnostic ultrasound and in paediatric cardiology, the handbook is structured according to presentation, allowing each fetal cardiac problem to be easily recognised and an outline approach identified to aid immediate decision making and patient counselling. The book is fully illustrated with high quality illustrations demonstrating echo findings.

Table of contents:
  1. The normal heart
  2. Aetiology of structural congenital heart disease
  3. Indications for a fetal echocardiography
  4. History and examination
  5. Fetal echocardiography
  6. Structural anomalies
  7. Left sided anomalies
  8. Right sided anomalies
  9. Septal anomalies
  10. Atrioventricular anomalies
  11. Abnormal ventriculo-arterial connections
  12. Cardiac position
  13. Fetal cardiac rhythm
  14. Cardiac function
  15. Heart muscle disease
  16. Abnormalities at a glance
  17. Other investigations
  18. Cardiac tumours
  19. Nuchal translucency and the heart
  20. Fetal hydrops and the heart
  21. Twins and the heart
  22. The heart in the sick fetus
  23. Management of fetal structural cardiac disease in pregnancy
  24. Postnatal evaluation
  25. Conclusion

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