Cardiovascular Imaging

Echocardiography in Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease: From Fetus to Adult

Posted on May 1, 2013May 26, 2016 by admin

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Wyman W. Lai, MD, MPH, Director, Non-Invasive Cardiac Imaging, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York Presbyterian, New York, NY, USA
Luc L. Mertens, MD, PhD, Section Head, Echocardiography, The Hospital for Sick Children, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Meryl S. Cohen, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; , Director, Echocardiography Laboratory , Co-Director, Cardiology Fellowship Training Program , The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Tal Geva, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School;, Chief, Division of Non-Invasive Cardiac Imaging, Department of Cardiology, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA

Finally, a resource that takes full advantage of modern technology! In a major advance for pediatric cardiology, this text/DVD set covers ultrasound physics; laboratory set-up; a protocol for a standard pediatric echocardiogram; quantitative methods of echocardiographic evaluation, including assessment of diastolic function; in-depth coverage of congenital cardiovascular malformations; acquired pediatric heart disease; and topics of special interest, such as 3D echocardiography, transesophageal echocardiography, and fetal echocardiography.