Presentations


These six presentations cover some of the basics of heart disease, to a level sufficient for a caradiac imager to have a sensible conversation with a referring clinician. Please set your monitor display to a minimum of 1024x768. You may well have to scroll the text window at times. Navigation buttons are at the bottom of each page.

Cardiac Embryology (4.61MB)
An imager's summary of the basics of cardiac embryology.This is a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation for you to download. You may require a viewer if you do not have this application installed.

General Haemodynamic Principles
An introduction to cardiac physiology for all ages.

Pulmonary Hypertension
The essentials of pulmonary hypertension and its influence on the progression of congenital heart disease.

A haemodynamic classification of congenital heart disease

Foetal and birth haemodynamics

The ischaemic cascade