Bookedited by Bijan Siassi, MD, FACC, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Radiology,
... Show More Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, Shahab Noori, MD, MS CBTI, RDCS, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Fetal and Neonatal Institute, Division of Neonatology, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, Ruben J. Acherman, MD, Professor of Pediatric Cardiology, Children's Heart Center Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, Pierrce C. Wong, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Director, Echocardiography Lab and Cardiac Pathology Registry, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
Contents:
Basic principles of echocardiography / Apichai Khongphatthanayothin
Echocardiographic scanners and transducers / Mahmood (Mac) Ebrahimi
Cross-sectional neonatal cardiac anatomy as depicted by standard two-dimensional echocardiography / Bijan Siassi, Mahmood Ebrahimi, Shilpa Patil, and Ruben Acherman
Application of echocardiographic simulators in training for neonatal echocardiography / Bijan Siassi, Mahmood Ebrahimi, and Shahab Noori
M-mode echocardiography and 2D cardiac measurements / Merujan Uzunyan and Lindsey Miller
Pulse wave, continuous wave and color flow Doppler in assessment of regurgitant flow and measurement of pressure gradients / Merujan Uzunyan and Lindsey Miller
Application of pulse wave and continuous wave Doppler in the assessment and measurement of cardiac and systemic blood flow / Shahab Noori
Assessment of systolic, diastolic and global cardiac function / Shahab Noori
Shunts through a patent foramen ovale / Bijan Siassi
Shock, myocardial dysfunction and heart failure / Shahab Noori and Tai Wei Wu
Patent ductus arteriosus / Shahab Noori
Persistent pulmonary hypertension in newborn infants : assessment of pulmonary artery pressure / Tina A. Leone
Desaturation and cyanosis in the newborn infant without congenital heart disease / Tina A. Leone
Aneurysm of ductus arteriosus, cardiomyopathies, and aortopulmonary collaterals / Ruben Acherman
Suspecting congenital heart disease / Bijan Siassi, Mahmood Ebrahimi, and Ruben Acherman
Overview of fetal echocardiography / Ruben J. Acherman and William N. Evans.