Echocardiography in Pediatric Heart Disease.

Abstract

Echocardiography in Pediatric Heart Disease. 2nd Ed. By Rebecca Snider, Gerald Serwer, and Samuel Ritter. (Pp 596; £125 hardback.) Mosby, 1997. ISBN 0-8151-7851-4. There is no doubt that two dimensional echo has revolutionised the practice of paediatric cardiology. It is a safe, painless, portable technique that can be performed by the bed/cotside. It has largely replaced diagnostic angiography. In North America there are now doctors who are solely paediatric echocardiographers (in the UK we tend to be “Jacks of all trades”, I forget the rest of that aphorism). Three luminary American …