Pediatric and Fetal Echocardiography Laboratories Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, USA
by Norman H. Silverman Over the last two decades, the value of examining the fetal heart has moved from an experimental procedure of diagnostic curiosity to a front-line form of evaluating fetal cardiac health and disease. There have been numerous advances in the associated te- nology, including high-resolution imaging, the introduction of reliable color flow and pulse Doppler, and M-Mode and continuous-wave Doppler recordings in some inst- ments. Such advances continue, with the potential for 3D imaging using spatiotem- ral image correlation (STIC) and full-volume fetal technology. The techniques used by obstetric sonographers in all fields, including physicians from the fields of radiology, obstetrics, and pediatric cardiology, together with te- nologists who support and do most of the scanning, require a fundamental understanding of ultrasound as well as anatomy, physiology, and the various cardiac pathologies that occur in the fetus. This book addresses these fundamentals, providing correlations by means of diagrams and images of fetal cardiac morphology and pathology. The scans are quite unique, having been collected over several years by the principal author, Dr. Enrico M. Chiappa, from his laboratories in Italy, and provide exquisite echoc- diography of normal and congenitally malformed hearts. These are complemented by the excellent pathological images of Dr. Andrew C. Cook and Dr. Gianni Botta, who provided high-quality images of normal and pathological fetal heart conditions, which are displayed as support for the echocardiographic images. The organization of this book is oriented toward practitioners.
Authors and Affiliations
Maternal and Perinatal Cardiology Unit Division of Pediatric Cardiology, “Meyer” Children’s Hospital, Florence, Italy
Enrico M. Chiappa
British Heart Foundation Cardiac Morphology Unit Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK
Andrew C. Cook
Fetal and Maternal Pathology Department of Pathology “O.I.R.M.-S. Anna”, Children & Women’s Hospital, Turin, Italy
Gianni Botta
Pediatric and Fetal Echocardiography Laboratories Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, USA
Norman H. Silverman
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Echocardiographic Anatomy in the Fetus
Authors: Enrico M. Chiappa, Andrew C. Cook, Gianni Botta, Norman H. Silverman
