Echocardiography has expanded greatly to become a sub-specialty in cardiology in its own right. From the original M-mode modality of 50 years ago, it has evolved into a complex multimodality method for evaluating and quantifying cardiovascular lesions. In addition, the entire spectrum of hemodynamic assessment of the heart can now be performed noninvasively using echocardiography alone. Transesophageal echocardiography has added to the clarity of imaging and proved to be extremely helpful In valve surgery. Lately, three-dimensional echocardiography has added a new dimension and helped the understanding of cardiac anatomy and pathology in real time. Finally, deformation imaging and assessment of myocardial perfusion completes the global assessment of the heart by echocardiography by looking at the various contraction and perfusion patterns in patients with coronary artery disease at rest and during stress.
Echocardiography highlights the clinical utility of these evolving modalities that are now crucial to the renaissance of echocardiography. Thus it provides a thorough clinical review of this most revealing and adaptable methods of imaging a patient. The Editors and their world-class group of contributors have created an essential reference for all who use echocardiography in the practice.
Author(s): Graham Leech (auth.), Petros Nihoyannopoulos, Joseph Kisslo (eds.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 480
Tags: Cardiology; Imaging / Radiology; Diagnostic Radiology; Internal Medicine; Emergency Medicine
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Physical Principles and the Basic Exam....Pages 1-28
Conducting a Cardiac Ultrasound Examination....Pages 31-46
Principles of Flow Assessment....Pages 47-62
Principles of Hemodynamic Assessment....Pages 63-78
Tissue Doppler, Doppler Strain, and Non-Doppler Strain: Tips, Limitations, and Applications....Pages 79-100
Transesophageal Echocardiography: Principles and Application....Pages 101-114
Front Matter....Pages 116-116
Aortic Valve Disease....Pages 116-133
Mitral Valve Disease....Pages 135-213
Tricuspid and Pulmonic Valve Disease....Pages 215-227
Pulmonary Hypertension Clinical Echocardiography....Pages 229-249
Criteria for Operative Intervention in Valvular Heart Disease Based on Echocardiography....Pages 251-263
Clinical Echocardiography Prosthetic Valves....Pages 265-282
The Use of Echocardiography in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Patients with Infective Endocarditis....Pages 283-294
Front Matter....Pages 296-296
Pericardial Effusion, Tamponade, and Constriction....Pages 297-310
Front Matter....Pages 312-312
Clinical Echocardiography....Pages 313-324
Stress Echocardiography....Pages 325-350
Principles of Myocardial Viability Implications for Echocardiography....Pages 351-365
Echocardiography for Assessing Acute Myocardial Infarction....Pages 367-383
Mechanical Complications of Myocardial Infarction....Pages 385-397
Cardiomyopathies....Pages 399-434
Front Matter....Pages 312-312
Echocardiography in Heart Failure....Pages 435-445
Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy....Pages 447-461
Front Matter....Pages 464-464
Intracardiac Masses....Pages 465-471
Aortic Disorders....Pages 473-487
Source of Embolus....Pages 489-510
Front Matter....Pages 512-512
Simple Congenital Heart Defects....Pages 513-524
Echocardiographic Evaluation of Complex Congenital Heart Disease....Pages 525-539
Adult Congenital Heart Disease....Pages 541-565
Front Matter....Pages 568-568
Intraoperative Echocardiography....Pages 569-579
Contrast Echocardiography....Pages 581-601
Three-Dimensional Echocardiography....Pages 603-618
Ultrasound Stethoscopy....Pages 619-636
Echo-Guided Interventions....Pages 637-653
Back Matter....Pages 655-667
