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.
Fully updated, with new chapters on the assessment of the post-Fontan procedure patient and on pregnancy and heart disease
Each lesion chapter includes new section highlighting the key elements of the echocardiogram(s)
Written by experts from the leading centers around the world, with numerous new authors
Revision emphasizes new technologies and quality of images
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
Also includes special techniques and topics including 3D echocardiography, intraoperative echocardiography, and fetal echocardiography
About the Author
Wyman W. Lai, MD, MPH Professor of Pediatrics at CUMC Columbia University Medical Center; Director, Noninvasive Cardiac Imaging Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian New York, NY, USA
Luc L. Mertens, MD, PhD Section Head, Echocardiography The Hospital for Sick Children; Professor of Pediatrics The University of Toronto Toronto, ON, Canada
Meryl S. Cohen, MD Professor of Pediatrics Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Medical Director, Echocardiography Program Director, Cardiology Fellowship The Cardiac Center The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA, USA
Tal Geva, MD Professor of Pediatrics Harvard Medical School; Chief, Division of Non-Invasive Cardiac Imaging Department of Cardiology Boston Children’s Hospital Boston, MA, USA
