Specific considerations in ACHD patients

What you will learn

This chapter focuses on issues that need special attention when scanning patients with congenital heart disease. This includes: the right ventricle, pulmonary valve, main pulmonary artery, pulmonary branches, interatrial and interventricular septum. mIn addition, we talk about hemodynamic measurements in ACHD.

Topics: 

• The right ventricle
• The pulmonary valve
• Main pulmonary artery and branches
• Interatrial and interventricular septae and shunts
• Haemodynamic measurements in ACHD