Echocardiography: an overview - Part II

This review describes echocardiographic features of commonly encountered acyanotic congenital heart defects. Echo-Doppler features of lesions causing obstruction, namely aortic stenosis, aortic coarctation, stenosis of the pulmonary valve and pulmonary arteries were initially presented followed by discussion of lesions with left-to-right shunt namely, atrial and ventricular septal defects, patent foramen ovale, patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), and atrioventricular septal defect. A special section dedicated to evaluating hemodynamically significant PDAs in premature infants was also included. Coronary artery anomalies (both congenital and acquired) were reviewed at the conclusion of the paper