Atlas of Pediatric Echocardiography

Common genetic disorders associated with heart disease

Echocardiographic screening in patients with genetic disease plays an important role in daily practice. Early detection of possible cardiac complications is essential and enables prompt treatment. Some disorders have very typical echocardiographic features. This chapter describes some of the most…

Pulmonary hypertension

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Cardiac tumors

In children, most cases of primary heart tumors are benign, while malignant lesions are rare. The most common tumors in childhood include cardiac rhabdomyoma and fibroma . Cardiac myxoma is rarely diagnosed in the pediatric population. Secondary metastatic malignancies are…

Pericardial disease

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Infective endocarditis (IE)

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Rheumatic fever

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Kawasaki disease

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Cardiomyopathies

Cardiomyopathy is an umbrella term for a group of myocardial disorders characterized by a structural and functional abnormality of the heart muscle, which is not secondary to other causes such as hypertension, congenital heart disease, valvar disease, or coronary artery…

Myocarditis

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