Echocardiography in Adult Congenital Heart Disease

Congenital heart disease is a multi-faceted and complex subject due to the immense variability in cardiac morphology. Some of these changes can be expected as part of the natural history of the various diseases and others are directly related to the original surgery correcting the congenital defect, so it has become clear that adult congenital cardiology is a defined entity on its own. Cardiologists and cardiac radiologists therefore must be prepared for a huge variability in the echocardiographic appearances of congenital heart disease both pre and postoperative, and this book provides the tools to evaluate the potential malformed pediatric or adult heart. **Echocardiography in Adult Congenital Heart Disease** provides the cardiologist with access to the considerable wealth of imaging data from Royal Brompton Hospital and National Heart and Lung Institute in London, UK. Consequently, the book contains numerous echocardiographic images to illustrate the appearances of rare defects and demonstrates areas for using non-invasive imaging to assess cardiac physiology in different disease. This gives readers a practical insight into the techniques needed to establish non-invasive diagnoses of congenital heart diseases. Congenital heart disease is gaining importance as a condition that effects not only the pediatric population but also the adult population, as many congenital cardiac conditions remain silent for years until accidentally discovered on routine check up. Echocardiography in Adult Congenital Heart Disease provides cardiologists with access to the wealth of imaging from the Royal Brompton Hospital and National Heart and Lung Institute in London to enable them to improve on their own skills and refine their imaging technique. The authors correlate this echocardiography experience with the pathological and surgical aspects of congenital heart defects. This book provides cardiologists with access to the wealth of imaging from the Royal Brompton Hospital and National Heart and Lung Institute in London to enable them to improve on their own skills and refine their imaging technique. The authors correlate this echocardiography experience with the pathological and surgical aspects of congenital heart defects. They include a review of the pathologic, physiologic and surgical observations of different congenital diseases to assist in understanding the various echocardiographic presentations. The book contains large numbers of echocardiographic images. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Septal Defects....Pages 1-24 Left Ventricular Inflow Obstruction....Pages 25-38 Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Lesions....Pages 39-58 Disease of the Aorta....Pages 59-64 Tricuspid Valve Abnormalities....Pages 65-71 Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Lesions....Pages 72-76 Other Congenital Heart Diseases with Major Right Ventricular Involvement....Pages 77-111 Univentricular Heart (Singe Ventricle)....Pages 112-116 Congenital Anomalies of the Coronary Arteries....Pages 117-121 Infective Endocartidis....Pages 122-125 Others....Pages 126-132 Back Matter....Pages 133-185 Provides cardiologists with access to the wealth of imaging from the Royal Brompton Hospital and National Heart and Lung Institute in London to enable them to improve on their own skills and refine their imaging technique. This book contains large numbers of echocardiographic images to illustrate the appearances of rare defects