Overview

This textbook, edited by three of the world's leading experts, profiles all aspects of this important field. Beginning with embryology and concluding with congenital heart defects in the newborn, it explains scientific and clinical principles with clarity and is illustrated with top quality scans. Fetal Cardiology is for all health care professionals performing targeted organ scans or with an interest in the fetal heart. Aimed especially at obstetricians, pediatric cardiologists and general cardiologists, this book includes chapters on treatment options-pharmacological or surgical interventions-available to affected fetuses, as well as all life-stages of heart disease, from embryology to adulthood. It also explores often-ignored areas such as the placenta, reproductive health of women with coronary heat disease, counseling of families affected with coronary heart disease, and future fetal treatments only now being developed. Fetal Cardiology will establish itself as the benchmark text.

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Author:   Simcha Yagel (Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel) ,  Norman H. Silverman (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA) ,  Ulrich Gembruch (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The University Hospital Bonn, Germany)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Informa Healthcare
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 27.90cm
Weight:   2.722kg
ISBN:  

9781853179051

ISBN 10:   1853179051
Pages:   560
Publication Date:   26 December 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Replaced By:   9780415432658
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Cardiovascular Development. Cardiac Morphogenesis. Cardiac Anatomy and Examination of Specimens. Placental Implantation and Development. Placental Circulations. The Physics of Ultrasound Imaging. Epidemiology of Congenital Heart Disease: Etiology, Pathogenesis and Incidence. Indication for Fetal Echocardiography: Screening in Low- and High-Risk Populations. Fetal Circulation. Development of Fetal Cardiac and Extracardiac Doppler Flows in Early Gestation. The Examination of the Normal Fetal Heart Using Two-Dimensional Echocardiography. Early Human Fetal Cardiovascular Dynamics. First and Early Second Trimester Fetal Heart Screening. Three Dimensional Fetal Echocardiography. Cardiac Malpositions and Syndromes with Right or Left Atrial Isomerism. Anomalies of the Right Heart. Intracardiac Shunt Malformations. Left Heart Malformations. Ventricular Outflow Tract Anomalies. Truncus Arteriosus or Common Atrial Trunk. Fetal Detection of Arterial Malpositions. Abnormal Visceral and Atrial Situs and Congenital Heart Disease. Diseases of the Myocardium, Endocardium and Pericardium During Fetal Life. Cardiomyopathy in the Fetus. Examination of the Fetal Coronary Circulation. Fetal Cardiac Tumors. The Fetal Venous System: Normal Embryology, Anatomy and Physiology and the Development and Appearance of Anomalies. Diagnosis of Cardiac Arrhythmias During Fetal Life. Fetal Bradydysrhythmia. Fetal Tachyarrhythmia. Cardiac Diseases in Association with Hydrops Fetalis. Genetics and Cardiac Abnormalities. Cardiac Defects in Chromosomally Abnormal Fetuses. Associated Anomalies in Congenital Heart Disease. From Fetal to Neonatal Circulation. The Neonate with Congenital Heart Disease - Medical and Interventional Management. Infants with Congenital Heart Disease in the First Year of Life. Prospects for Fetal Cardiac Surgery. Saving the Smallest Hearts - Cardiac Intervention for Structural Heart Disease and Arryhthymias in the Fetus. Fetal Cardiac Function in Normal and Growth-Restricted Fetuses. Venous Flow in Intrauterine Growth Restriction and Cardiac Decompensation. Fetal Distress and Intrapartum Monitoring. Cardiac Disease in Pregnancy. Maternal Diseases and Therapies Affecting the Fetal Cardiovascular System.

Reviews

the editors set out to update the reader about imaging, foetal cardiac therapies and interventions. They do this well. [This book] is useful for anyone regularly involved with antenatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease. a much-welcomed addition to the literature. - Cardiology News, Vol. 7, No. 6

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