TY  - BOOK
AU  - V. Donoghue (Ed.) 
TI  - Radiological Imaging of the Neonatal Chest
SN  - 9783540337485
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  -  Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 
KW  - Radiology
N1  - Includes Index
N2  - This second edition of “Radiological Imaging of the Neonatal Chest” once again gives
a detailed update on the clinical management of the various neonatal conditions, with
emphasis on the impact of therapeutic interventions on the imaging findings. Antenatal
and postnatal imaging of chest malformations is again discussed, together with some
controversies regarding postnatal management of asymptomatic patients with these
conditions. The chapters on clinical management, embryology, hyaline membrane disease, infection and chest wall abnormalities have been updated with little change in the
imaging and treatment of infants with meconium aspiration syndrome.
In this edition the use of multidetector CT, which has revolutionised the imaging of
vascular tracheobronchial compression syndromes and other airway disorders, is discussed and this technique now plays a central role in the modern evaluation of the newborn suspected with these abnormalities.
There are chapters devoted to all imaging modalities used to examine the heart and
great vessels. In addition to high resolution ultrasonography, multidetector CT can provide exquisite extracardiac vascular detail with very short imaging times, often without
sedation. In addition, there is now more widespread use of magnetic resonance imaging
in the investigation of congenital cardiac abnormalities. As a result, in many institutions,
both MDCT and MRI have replaced many diagnostic angiocardiography examinations
in these newborns and this in turn has led to closer collaboration between paediatric radiologists and paediatric cardiologists in many centres. However, as the rate of
diagnostic catheter studies is decreasing, the number of catheter-based interventional
cardiac procedures is steadily increasing and this is addressed in the chapter on angiocardiography.
As many departments have installed computed or digital radiography, there is also a
chapter devoted to this topic.
All of these changes prompted the preparation and publication of this second
volume.
This book is intended primarily for use by paediatric radiologists, including those in
training. It will also be of interest to neonatologists, paediatric cardiologists, paediatricians and paediatric surgeons.
I am most grateful to the international experts in the various fields of clinical neonatal chest medicine and diagnostic and interventional neonatal chest imaging who have
written the various chapters, and I thank them for their excellent contributions. I hope
this book will be accepted as a working and reference text for all those involved in caring
for the neonate
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