Main description:

This book serves as a comprehensive guide to pediatric cardiac computed tomography (CT), particularly for patients with congenital heart disease. Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of congenital abnormalities (8/1000 of live births). Over the past two decades, the diagnostic medical approach has significantly changed with a considerable increase in the number of CT studies in pediatric patients. Preoperative surgical or interventional planning for children with CHD remains crucial and challenging, but despite this and the advancement in the development of new CT techniques and radiation dose reduction methods, there are limited books addressing pediatric cardiac CT.
This work fills that gap by offering a complete look at the techniques and clinical utilization for pediatric cardiac CT with liberal use of images. The text begins with overarching themes of pediatric cardiac CT, like its advantages and techniques, and moves into covering different areas of the heart and possible presentations, like atrioventricular connections and cardiac tumors. Each chapter begins with a short introduction section followed by preoperative and postoperative cardiac CT imaging, management approach, and short-term and long-term outcomes. This book also describes the novel technologies being used for three-dimensional modelling and three-dimensional printing in the surgical preparation of patients with complex congenital heart disease. This book is the first to address pediatric cardiac CT image fusion to fluoroscopy to guide cardiac catheterization in patients with complex congenital heart disease. Radiation dose reduction during cardiac catheterization is also an important part of diagnostic and interventional cardiac catheterization that is covered in detail. The book concludes with an overarching look of the role cardiac CT plays in the pre- and post-operative evaluation of congenital heart disease in children.
This book is an ideal guide for pediatric radiologists, pediatric cardiologists, pediatric cardiothoracic surgeons, related trainees, and any physician interested in advanced cardiac imaging.

Contents:

1. Advantages of Cardiac CT Scan over Other Diagnostic TechniquesDilachew A. Adebo2. Techniques of Cardiac CT Scan: Patient Preparation, Contrast Medium, Scanning and PostprocessingDilachew A. Adebo3. Evaluation of Cardiac Malposition, Cardiac Segmental Approach, and Heterotaxy Syndrome Mehul D. Patel 4. Systemic Venous AnomaliesSantosh C. Uppu5. Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connections and Cor TriatriatumLi Xiong6. Septal Defects: Atrial Septal Defects, Ventricular Septal Defects, Atrioventricular Septal Defects, and Unroofed Coronary SinusMehul D. Patel7. Atrioventricular Valves: Tricuspid valveSantosh C. Uppu8. Atrioventricular Valves: Congenital Mitral Valve AbnormalitiesSantosh C. Uppu9. Atrioventricular Connections: Double Inlet Ventricle, Atrioventricular Discordance, Congenitally Corrected Transposition of Great ArteriesRami Kharouf, DilachewA. Adebo10. Right Ventricular Outflow Tract: Pulmonary Valve StenosisDilachew A. Adebo11. Right Ventricular Outflow Tract: Pulmonary Atresia with Intact Ventricular SeptumDilachew A. Adebo12. Right Ventricular Outflow Tract: Pulmonary Valve Atresia, Ventricular Septal Defect, Major Aortopulmonary Collateral ArteriesDilachew A. Adebo13. Right Ventricular Outflow Tract: Tetralogy of FallotDilachew A. Adebo 14. Right Ventricular Outflow Tract: Absent Pulmonary Valve SyndromeDilachew A. Adebo15. Left Ventricular Outflow Tract: Congenital Aortic Valve and Left Ventricular Outflow AnomaliesSantosh C. Uppu16. Left Ventricular Outflow Tract: Hypoplastic Left Heart SyndromeSantosh C. Uppu, Mehul D. Patel17. Double Outlet Right Ventricle Laura Schoeneberg, Dilachew A. Adebo18. Dextro-Transposition of Great ArteriesLaura Schoeneberg, Dilachew A. Adebo19. Truncus ArteriosusLaura Schoeneberg, Dilachew A. Adebo20. Anomalous Aortic Origin of Pulmonary ArteriesLaura Schoeneberg, Dilachew A. Adebo21. Anomalous Coronary Arteries Li Xiong22. Aneurysm of the Sinus of Valsalva, Aorta-Left Ventricle TunnelDilachew A. Adebo23. Aortopulmonary WindowDilachew A. Adebo24. Aortic Arch Anomalies: Coarctation of Aorta and Aortic Arch HypoplasiaElisa Rhee, Dilachew A. Adebo25. Aortic Arch Anomalies: Aortic Arch InterruptionElisa Rhee, Dilachew A. Adebo26. Vascular Rings and SlingsArpit K. Aggarwal 27. Cardiac TumorsSantosh C. Uppu28. Cardiac Computed Tomography after Single Ventricle PalliationSheba John, Dilachew A. Adebo29. Cardiac Computed Tomography in Evaluation of Ventricular FunctionRami Kharouf, Dilachew A. Adebo30. Role of Cardiac CT in Pre-operative and Post-operative Evaluation of Congenital Heart Defects in ChildrenAntonio F. Corno, Jorge D. Salazar31. Non-cardiac Findings of Cardiac CTDilachew A. Adebo