Rapid Prototyping in Cardiac Disease (eBook)

Kanwal Majeed Farooqi, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Rutgers, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

Part I: Introduction.- History of Rapid Prototyping.- Creation of a 3D Printed Model from Virtual to Physical.- Image Acquisition for Creation of a 3D Model: CT, CMR and Echocardiography.- Postprocessing–Software and Technique Options.- Rapid Prototyping Technologies.- Part 2: Pediatrics.- Imaging Considerations and Challenges in Pediatrics.- Septal Defects.- Tetralogy of Fallot with Major Aortopulmonary Collateral Arteries.- Double Outlet Right Ventricle.- Utilization of 3D Printing for Pulmonary Valve Placement.- 3D Printing in Adult Congenital Heart Disease.- Part 3: Structural Heart Disease.- Patient-Specific Modeling for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement.- Rapid Prototyping in Valvular Heart Disease.- Three-Dimensional Models for Assessing Ventricular Assist Device Placement and Function.- Cardiac Tumors.- Part 4: Management Strategies.- Establishing a Cardiovascular Rapid Prototyping Service.- Utility of a 3D File Database.- 3D Bioprinting for Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering.- Past Developments and Future Directions of 3D Cardiac Printing—A Surgeon’s Perspective.