Echocardiography in Congenital Heart Disease: Expert Consult: Online and Print

by Mark B. Lewin, Karen K Stout MD

Overview

Echocardiography in Congenital Heart Disease - a volume in the exciting new Practical Echocardiography Series edited by Dr. Catherine M. Otto - provides practical how-to-do-it guidance on echocardiography for an ever-growing number of pediatric and adult congenital heart disease patients. Drs. Mark B. Lewin and Karen Stout offer you definitive, expert instruction with a highly visual, case-based approach that facilitates understanding and equips you to accurately acquire and interpret images while avoiding pitfalls. Access the full text online at www.expertconsult.com along with cases, procedural videos, and abundant, detailed figures and tables that show you how to proceed, step by step, and get the best results.

• Master challenging and advanced techniques including 3-D echocardiography and transesophageal echocardiography through a practical, step-by-step format that provides a practical approach to data acquisition and analysis, technical details, pitfalls, and case examples.
• Expand your knowledge and apply the latest findings on congenital cardiovascular abnormalities and adult congenital heart disease
• Reference the information you need quickly thanks to easy-to-follow, templated chapters, with an abundance of figures and tables that facilitate visual learning.
• Access the complete text and illustrations online at www.expertconsult.com plus video clips, additional cases, and much more!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781437726961
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	12/28/2011
Series:	Practical Echocardiography
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 10.50(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

Companion Series Congenital Heart Disease Guide: Table of Contents

1 The Pediatric Transthoracic Echocardiogram

2 The Fetal Echocardiogram

3 Echo in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory

4 Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE)

5 Shunting Lesions

6 Atrioventricular Canal Defects

7 Conotruncal Lesions

8 Transposition of the Great Arteries

9 Venous Anomalies

10 Single Ventricle Lesions

11 Right Heart Anomalies

12 Left Heart Anomalies

13 Myocardial Pathology

14 Kawasaki Disease: Echocardiographic Assessment

15 Thromboembolic phenomena and vegetations

16 Implications of pediatric renal, endocrine and oncologic disease

17 Post-cardiac transplant echocardiographic assessment

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Master the latest echo techniques for evaluating congenital heart disease in both pediatric and adult patients

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Jonathan Bonilla, M.D.(Ochsner Clinic Foundation)
Description: One of four books in the Practical Echocardiography series, this one covers echocardiography in congenital heart disease.
Purpose: Spanning the entire range from birth to old age, it takes a comprehensive and pragmatic approach in its discussion of echocardiography in the patient with congenital heart disease.
Audience: It is intended for cardiology fellows, cardiac sonographers, anesthesiologists, cardiac surgeons, and cardiologists interested in pediatric and adult congenital echocardiography.
Features: Initially, it presents an overview of pediatric echo imaging protocols, followed by a description of congenital cardiac pathologies. The focus is on congenital heart disease requiring structural and/or functional assessment with echocardiographic techniques, using numerous echo still frame images and illustrations.
Assessment: This book illustrates the evolving use of echocardiography in congenital heart disease through in-depth descriptions of specific echocardiographic findings.

Doody's Review Service

"Initially, it presents an overview of pediatric echo imaging protocols, followed by a description of congenital cardiac pathologies. The focus is on congenital heart disease requiring structural and/or functional assessment with echocardiographic techniques, using numerous echo still frame images and illustrations.This book illustrates the evolving use of echocardiography in congenital heart disease through in-depth descriptions of specific echocardiographic findings."- Jonathan Bonilla, M.D. (Ochsner Clinic Foundation) 4 star Doody rating!

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