Differential Diagnosis in Pediatric Echocardiography

Dr. Jean Lintermans came to Seattle in 1962 from his general pediatric residency at the University of Iowa. He worked with us in clinical pediatric cardiology and in our animal physiology laboratory for the next three years. He was the most productive ind

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W. G. van Dorp

Differential Diagnosis in Pediatric Echo cardiography With 110 Figures and 20 Tables

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York 1981

Dr. Jean Paul Lintermans Universite Catholique de Louvain Cliniques Universitaires St. Luc Cardiologie Pediatrique B-1200 Brussels Belgium Dr. Willem Gerrit van Dorp De Graafschap 118 2904 XX Capelle aan den IJssel The Netherlands

lSBN-13:978-3-642-67517-1 e-lSBN-13:978-3-642-67515-7 DOl: 10.1007/978-3-642-67515-7 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data. Lintermans, Jean Paul 1935--. Differential diagnosis in pediatric ecbocardiography. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Ultrasonic cardiography. 2. Pediatric cardiology. 3. Diagnosis, Differential. I. Dorp, Willem Gerrit van, 1951- joint author. II. Title. [DNLM: 1. Diagnosis, Differential- In infancy and childhood. 2. Echocardiography - In infancy and childhood. WGI41.5.E2 L761dJ RJ423.5.U46L56 618.92'()()7543 80-12801 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material

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To the Sick Child

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Foreword

Dr. Jean Lintermans came to Seattle in 1962 from his general pediatric residency at the University of Iowa. He worked with us in clinical pediatric cardiology and in our animal physiology laboratory for the next three years. He was the most productive individual in the history of our training program, publishing seven papers in those three years, four clinical papers and three involving pulsed ultrasonic flowmeters and implanted ultrasonic displacement devices in animals. The work, from laboratory to publication, was always done with the utmost attention to accuracy, and was well developed conceptually. Although English was not his native language, Jean's mastery of English was not only excellent, I felt that he actually communicated better than many of our native physicians. During the past year, I was delighted to learn that Jean was preparing a textbook on pediatric echocardiography with Dr. van Dorp, and was even more pleased to be asked to write a foreword .. However, the greatest pleasure came from actually reading this book, and finding that it does indeed have a unique approach, and with the additional genuine benefit to the reader of a thorough, consistent, segmental approach to the diagnosis of congenital he