Echocardiography in Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease

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From Fetus to Adult

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This comprehensive textbook on the echocardiographic assessment of pediatric and congenital heart disease has been updated for a second edition with an emphasis on new technologies. This highly-illustrated full-color reference contains over 1200 figures, and offers over 600 video clips on a companion website.<br /><br /> <ul> <li>Fully updated, with new chapters on the assessment of the post-Fontan procedure patient and on pregnancy and heart disease</li> <li>Each lesion chapter includes new section highlighting the key elements of the echocardiogram(s)</li> <li>Written by experts from the leading centers around the world, with numerous new authors</li> <li>Revision emphasizes new technologies and quality of images</li> <li>Comprehensive content contains overview of ultrasound physics, discussion of laboratory set-up, protocol for a standard pediatric echocardiogram and quantitative methods of echocardiographic evaluation, including assessment of diastolic function</li> <li>Also includes special techniques and topics including 3D echocardiography, intraoperative echocardiography, and fetal echocardiography</li> </ul>