ABSTRACT
Accounting for the huge strides in technological development over the past few years, as well as of recent research and advances, this text updates cutting-edge information on topics such as: embryologycardiovascular developmentplacental implantation and developmentintracardiac shunt malformationsfetal cardiac tumorsNEW TO THE SECOND EDITION:DVD wi
1. Cardiovascular Development 2. Cardiac Morphogenesis 3. Cardiac Anatomy and Examination of Specimens 4. Placental Implantation and Development 5. Placental Circulations 6. The Physics of Ultrasound Imaging 7. Technical Advances in Fetal Echocardiography 8. Epidemiology of Congenital Heart Disease 9. Indications for Fetal Echocardiography 10. Circulation in the Normal Fetus and Cardiovascular Adaptations to Birth 11. Development of Fetal Cardiac and Extracardiac Doppler Flows in Early Gestation 12. The Examination of the Normal Fetal Heart using Two-dimensional Echocardiography 13. First and Early Second Trimester Fetal Heart Screening 14. Four-dimensional Ultrasound Examination of the Fetal Heart by Spatiotemporal Image Correlation 15. Three- and Four-dimensional Ultrasound in Fetal Echocardiography 16. Cardiac Malpositions and Syndromes with Right or Left Atrial Isomerism 17. Anomalies of the Right Heart 18. Pulmonary Atresia with Intact Ventricular Septum 19. Intracardiac Shunt Malformations 20. Left Heart Malformations 21. Ventricular Outflow Tract Anomalies 22. Aortic Arch Anomalies 23. Developments in Diagnosis of Transposition of the Great Arteries 24. Abnormal Visceral and Atrial Situs and Congenital Heart Disease 25. Diseases of the Myocardium, Endocardium, and Pericardium during Fetal Life 26. Cardiomyopathy in the Fetus 27. Ultrasound Examination of the Fetal Coronary Circulation 28. Fetal Cardiac Tumors 29. The Fetal Venous System 30. Extracardiac Doppler Investigation in Fetuses with Congenital Heart Disease 31. Electrophysiology for the Perinatologist 32. Fetal Bradydysrhythmia 33. Fetal Tachyarrhythmia 34. Cardiac Diseases in Association with Hydrops Fetalis 35. Mending the Tiniest Hearts 36. Fetal Cardiac Function in Normal and Growth-restricted