Noninvasive Imaging of Congenital Heart Disease

The last ten years have seen an explosion of uses for ultrasound. The purpose of this book is to outline how cardiac ultrasound can be utilized to diagnose even the most complex congenital malformation pre-operatively, and how anatomy and physiology can be assessed after surgical reconstruction.

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The last 10 years have seen an explosion of uses for ultrasound in the identification and management of congenital heart disease. This growth in echocardiography accompanied revolutionary improvements in neonatal heart surgery. Today, with the popularization of the subcostal window as the starting window of choice in the newborn and the refinement of Doppler colour flow mapping instrumentation, cardiologists can now obtain both anatomy and physiology noninvasively. The purpose of this book is to outline how cardiac ultrasound can be utilized to diagnose even the most complex congenital