This second edition of Fetal Cardiology: Embryology,
Genetics, Physiology, Echocardiographic Evaluation, Diagnosis
and Perinatal Management of Cardiac Diseases is,
like the first, the product of the combined efforts of
many professionals: obstetricians, pediatric cardiologists,
sonographers, molecular biologists, and medical physicists.
The field of fetal ultrasonographic and echocardiographic
imaging and fetal cardiac therapies and
interventions is rapidly changing and developing, and is
therefore in constant need of updating. Over the very
few years between the first and second editions, considerable
strides have been made in all aspects of fetal cardiology.
Chapters have been added on many aspects of fetal
cardiology, including the cardiac impact of the twinto-twin
transfusion syndrome, cerebral outcomes in
congenital heart disease (CHD), and congestive heart
failure, and virtually all have been updated. In two areas
advances have been particularly noteworthy: the identification
of additional genes implicated in CHD, and the
advances in three- and four-dimensional (3D/4D) ultrasound
(US) capabilities in fetal cardiac imaging.