BookAlfred Abuhamad, MD, Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Professor of Radiology, Chairman,
... Show More Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Vice Dean for Clinical Affairs, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia, Rabih Chaoui, MD, Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Prenatal Diagnosis and Human Genetics Center, Berlin, Germany.
Contents:
Congenital heart disease: incidence, risk factors, and prevention stragegies
Guidelines for the performance of the sonographic screening and echocardiography examination of the fetal heart
Embryology of the heart
Genetic aspects of congenital heart diseases
Cardiac anatomy
Fetal situs
Cardiac chambers: the four-chamber and short-axis views
The great vessels: axial, oblique, and sagittal views
The three-vessel-trachea view and upper mediastinum
Systematic evaluation of the venous system
Optimization of the two-dimensional grayscale image in fetal cardiac examination
Color doppler in fetal echocardiography
Pulsed doppler in fetal echocardiography
Fetal cardiac function
Three- and four-dimensional ultrasound of the fetal heart
Fetal cardiac measurements and reference ranges
Atrial, ventricular, and atrioventricular septal defects
Univentricular atrioventricular connection, double inlet ventricle, and tricuspid atresia and ventricular septal defect
Ebstein anomaly, tricuspid valve dysplasia, and tricuspid regurgitation
Aortic stenosis and bicuspid aortic valve
Hypoplastic left heart syndrome and critical aortic stenosis
Coarctation of the aorta and interrupted aortic arch
Pulmonary stenosis, pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum, and ductus arteriosus constriction
Tetralogy of fallot, pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect, and absent pulmonary valve syndrome
Common arterial trunk
Double outlet right ventricle
Complete and congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries
Right aortic arch, double aortic arch, and aberrant subclavian artery
Fetal heterotaxy and situs inversus
Anomalies of systemic and pulmonary venous connections
Fetal cardiomyopathies and fetal heart tumors
Fetal arrhythmias.