Norman H. Silverman – författare

The third edition of this established reference is the product of the combined efforts of many professionals – obstetricians, pediatric cardiologists, sonographers, molecular biologists, and medical physicists – and is a comprehensive guide intended for anyone interested in scanning the fetal cardiac system.

This book brings together for the first-time two-dimensional echocardiograms of the heart with pathologic specimens or other imaging modalities such as computerized tomographic or magnetic resonance images in order to compare them. On activation the echocardiograms move in real-time and correlate with the heart specimens, providing echo-morphological interplay in a great number of commonly imaged congenital cardiac conditions. The complementary imaging modalities allow for greater appreciation, both of the features of the echocardiogram and of the morphological specimens.The atlas is designed for both the novice and the expert. This work is a treatise or an atlas rather than a complete textbook. It examines the correlations between morphologic images of congenital cardiac lesions to those made by cross-sectional echocardiography. It will be a reference useful to educators, parents, and physicians practicing in a variety of fields including pre-and postgraduate physicians in general or those in specific fields such as pediatrics, pediatric cardiology, cardiac anesthesiology, cardiac surgery, intensive care, radiology, pathology and even obstetricians practicing fetal ultrasound and the specialty of adult congenital heart disease.

This book brings together for the first-time two-dimensional echocardiograms of the heart with pathologic specimens or other imaging modalities such as computerized tomographic or magnetic resonance images in order to compare them. On activation the echocardiograms move in real-time and correlate with the heart specimens, providing echo-morphological interplay in a great number of commonly imaged congenital cardiac conditions. The complementary imaging modalities allow for greater appreciation, both of the features of the echocardiogram and of the morphological specimens.The atlas is designed for both the novice and the expert. This work is a treatise or an atlas rather than a complete textbook. It examines the correlations between morphologic images of congenital cardiac lesions to those made by cross-sectional echocardiography. It will be a reference useful to educators, parents, and physicians practicing in a variety of fields including pre-and postgraduate physicians in general or those in specific fields such as pediatrics, pediatric cardiology, cardiac anesthesiology, cardiac surgery, intensive care, radiology, pathology and even obstetricians practicing fetal ultrasound and the specialty of adult congenital heart disease.

by Norman H. Silverman Over the last two decades, the value of examining the fetal heart has moved from an experimental procedure of diagnostic curiosity to a front-line form of evaluating fetal cardiac health and disease. There have been numerous advances in the associated te- nology, including high-resolution imaging, the introduction of reliable color flow and pulse Doppler, and M-Mode and continuous-wave Doppler recordings in some inst- ments. Such advances continue, with the potential for 3D imaging using spatiotem- ral image correlation (STIC) and full-volume fetal technology. The techniques used by obstetric sonographers in all fields, including physicians from the fields of radiology, obstetrics, and pediatric cardiology, together with te- nologists who support and do most of the scanning, require a fundamental understanding of ultrasound as well as anatomy, physiology, and the various cardiac pathologies that occur in the fetus. This book addresses these fundamentals, providing correlations by means of diagrams and images of fetal cardiac morphology and pathology. The scans are quite unique, having been collected over several years by the principal author, Dr. Enrico M. Chiappa, from his laboratories in Italy, and provide exquisite echoc- diography of normal and congenitally malformed hearts. These are complemented by the excellent pathological images of Dr. Andrew C. Cook and Dr. Gianni Botta, who provided high-quality images of normal and pathological fetal heart conditions, which are displayed as support for the echocardiographic images. The organization of this book is oriented toward practitioners.