Echocardiography

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Nihoyannopoulos, Petros (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Kisslo, Joseph (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Springer London, 2009.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Emergency medicine.; Radiology.; Internal medicine.; Cardiology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Imaging / Radiology.; Diagnostic Radiology.; Internal Medicine.; Emergency Medicine.

 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. 

 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.