Congenital Heart Disease.

Abstract

This chapter deals with the role of echocardiography in congenital heart disease. It covers views and findings, sequential segmental analysis, atrial septal defects and patent foramen ovale, atrial septal defects, ventricular septal defects, assessment of ventricular septal defects, left ventricular outflow and inflow obstruction, right ventricular outflow obstruction, transposition of the great arteries, persistent left superior vena cava, anomalous pulmonary drainage, tetralogy of Fallot, truncus arteriosus, double outlet right ventricle, single ventricle, surgical correction of congenital heart disease, Ebstein’s anomaly, patent ductus arteriosus, aortic coarctation, sinus of Valsalva aneurysm, Marfan syndrome, and congenital pericardial disease