Fetal Cardiology

Nick Archer, Paediatric cardiologist (retired) and Former Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford, and University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. After completing postgraduate training in paediatrics and perinatal paediatrics, Dr Archer trained in paediatric cardiology and became a consultant paediatric cardiologist in Oxford. His main research interests are in neonatal and fetal cardiology and he has written and taught in these fields in UK and abroad. He has recently retired and lives in Oxfordshire.

Nicky Manning, Fetal Cardiologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK, and Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford, UK. Nicky Manning qualified in London in 1978 and after working in London and Norwich, started working in the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford in November 1980, initially in Prenatal Diagnosis with an interest in clinical genetics. Since 1994 she has specialised in Fetal Cardiology but continues to work in Fetal Medicine and also maintains links with general prenatal diagnosis.

1: Introduction
2: Aetiology of fetal heart disease
3: History and examination
4: The normal heart
5: Indications for fetal echocardiography
6: Fetal echocardiography
7: 3 vessel trachea view
8: Other investigations
9: Structural abnormalities
10: Left heart abnormalities
11: Right heart abnormalities
12: Septal abnormalities
13: Abnormal ventriculoarterial connections
14: Miscellaneous abnormalities
15: Abnormalities at a glance
16: Abnormal cardiac position
17: Fetal cardiac rhythm
18: Cardiac function
19: Heart muscle disease
20: Fetal cardiac tumours
21: Nuchal translucency and the heart
22: Fetal hydrops and the heart
23: Twins and the heart
24: The heart in the sick fetus
25: Pregnancy management of fetal cardiac disease
26: Neurodevelopment issues in fetal cardiac disease
27: Post-natal evaluation

"Review from previous edition With huge practical experience of the subject, the authors...are amply qualified to write what is an amazing little book." - Dr Lawrence Impey, Consultant in Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine, The John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK

"Their combined perspective is apparent in the broad based and logical approach to the subject, which reflects a real life practical experience not just of fetal cardiac diagnosis, but crucially also of the wider clinical assessment which is so important in counselling." - Ian Sullivan, Consultant Cardiologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK