This Module is Module 12 in a 13 module eCourse series on Stats, Cardiac Cycle, Basic Echo Exam. For information on the full Pediatric Echocardiography, please click here.

Not all of pediatric echocardiography is congenital defects. There are several pediatric disease with cardiac consequences which deserve discussion. These diseases include Marfan's syndrome, hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy, pericarditis, endocarditis, rheumatic fever, Kawasaki disease and cardiac tumors seen in children.