How to Image Patients with ACHD

What you will learn

When you scan patients with adult congenital heart disease, you will need a slightly different approach. In this chapter, we show you some additional views that will be very helpful. In addition, we also demonstrate the "Sequential Segmental Analysis" so that you can determine the thoraco-abdominal situs, cardiac position, and cardiac orientation.

Topics: 

• How to determine the situs, position and orientation of the heart
• Morphology of atria and ventricles
• Segmental approach
• Standard echo protocol
• Identifying the atria and the ventricles
• AV and VA connection
• Imaging the right SVC