Fetal Cardiac Ultrasound Diagnosis

Author: Jielili / Wu Maoyuan / Liu Qinghua (editors)
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Publish Date: 2003-12-01
Features: This book provides a detailed introduction to normal fetal echocardiography and its detection methods from the perspective of prenatal ultrasound examinations of the fetus. It categorizes fetal heart diseases based on abnormal sonographic images observed in the four-chamber view. Combining the authors' clinical experience over more than a decade in fetal echocardiography and the cases of fetal heart malformations they have detected, the book offers a thorough explanation of the incidence, pathological anatomy and classification, pathophysiology, echocardiographic diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of various fetal heart diseases. The book consists of eleven chapters:
1. The development of the fetal heart and great vessels and their circulatory physiology
2. Indications for fetal echocardiography
3. Normal fetal echocardiography
4. Steps in fetal echocardiography and identification of abnormal sonographic images
5. Fetal heart diseases with non-four-chamber structures
6. Fetal heart diseases with symmetrical four-chamber views
7. Fetal heart diseases with right heart enlargement
8. Fetal heart diseases with left heart enlargement
9. Fetal arrhythmias
10. Fetal heart tumors and cardiac position abnormalities
The book includes over 200 illustrations, including normal fetal echocardiographic images, prenatal and postnatal ultrasound comparisons of fetal heart diseases, and postmortem anatomical images. The content is richly illustrated, novel, and practical. This book is suitable for ultrasound diagnostic physicians in various hospitals, as well as clinical physicians in obstetrics, internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, and related fields, as well as students and teachers in the field of imaging. It also holds significant clinical guidance value.