Full Description
As increasing emphasis is placed on evidence-based medicine and the need to a rapid and clinically effective diagnosis of cardiac disease, so echocardiography is ever-more present at the forefront of cardiology. This book represents the current knowledge in the technique of cardiology and is designed to guide the resident and fellow through the most common applications of echocardiography while touching on some of the less often seen echocardiographic diagnoses.
Contents
How Things Work.- Physical Principles and the Basic Exam.- Conducting a Cardiac Ultrasound Examination.- Principles of Flow Assessment.- Principles of Hemodynamic Assessment.- Tissue Doppler, Doppler Strain, and Non-Doppler Strain: Tips, Limitations, and Applications.- Transesophageal Echocardiography: Principles and Application.- Valvular Heart Disease.- Aortic Valve Disease.- Mitral Valve Disease.- Tricuspid and Pulmonic Valve Disease.- Pulmonary Hypertension Clinical Echocardiography.- Criteria for Operative Intervention in Valvular Heart Disease Based on Echocardiography.- Clinical Echocardiography Prosthetic Valves.- The Use of Echocardiography in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Patients with Infective Endocarditis.- Pericardial Disease.- Pericardial Effusion, Tamponade, and Constriction.- Ventricular Disorders and Ischemic Disease.- Clinical Echocardiography.- Stress Echocardiography.- Principles of Myocardial Viability Implications for Echocardiography.- Echocardiography for Assessing Acute Myocardial Infarction.- Mechanical Complications of Myocardial Infarction.- Cardiomyopathies.- Echocardiography in Heart Failure.- Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy.- Masses, Emboli and Trauma.- Intracardiac Masses.- Aortic Disorders.- Source of Embolus.- Congenital Heart Disease.- Simple Congenital Heart Defects.- Echocardiographic Evaluation of Complex Congenital Heart Disease.- Adult Congenital Heart Disease.- Special Methods.- Intraoperative Echocardiography.- Contrast Echocardiography.- Three-Dimensional Echocardiography.- Ultrasound Stethoscopy.- Echo-Guided Interventions.
