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