Main description:

This book focuses on congenital heart disease (CHD) and emerging imaging technologies. It covers all clinically relevant aspects of the fascinating new cardiac imaging technologies, including a comprehensive explanation of their basic principles, practical aspects of novel clinical applications, and detailed descriptions of specific uses in the broad spectrum of clinically important adult CHD.

Innovations and emerging technologies for diagnosis and therapeutics, evaluation and treatment are continually evolving, and due to these advances in non-invasive diagnosis, there has been a significant improvement in the survival rates for CHD patient. Novel approaches to trans-catheter interventions and advances in echocardiography, MRI and CT imaging are being developed and incorporated into routine clinical practice, while emerging three-dimensional printing technologies are fundamentally affecting patient care, research, trainee education, and interactions between multidisciplinary teams, patients, and caregivers. In addition, translational technologies on the horizon promise to take this nascent field even further. Exploring the applicability of these emerging technologies in improving our understanding of complex congenital cardiac defect anatomy and physiology will provide new treatment options for this unique population.

Written by experts in the field who are also involved in patient care, this book discusses the practical application of innovations in advanced multimodality imaging in the daily clinical routine and offers tips and tricks for beginners.

Contents:

1. 3D Echocardiography2. Ultrafast Ultrasound Imaging In Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease3. MRI T1 mapping: Myocardial fibrosis4. MRI Lymphatic imaging of Thoracic Lymphatic Disorders.5. MRI based catheterization laboratory.6. Cardiac mechanics I: 3D-Speckle tracking Echocardiography7. Cardiac mechanics II: 2D & 3D-Tissue tracking MRI8. 4D-flow MRI: Flow Dynamics9. Computational Fluid Dynamics10. 3D printing and Holography11. Multimodality assessment of cardiac shunts12. Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot13. Aortic disease: Bicuspid aortic valve, Aortic coarctation, Marfan's syndrome14. Multimodality Imaging Innovations In Arterial switch operation - Emerging Technologies and Novel Applications15. Novel applications of multimodality imaging of the systemic right ventricle16. Univentricular heart staged correction 17. Imaging for electrophysiology interventional planning in ACHD patients18. Imaging for structural interventional planning in ACHD patients19. Ebstein anomaly20. Imaging in pulmonary hypertension.