Three-dimensional Echocardiography

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Buck, Thomas (Editor), Franke, Andreas (Editor), Monaghan, Mark J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Radiology.; Internal medicine.; Cardiology.; Cardiac surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Cardiac Surgery.; Imaging / Radiology.; Internal Medicine.

Three-dimensional echocardiography is the most recent fundamental advancement in echocardiography. Since real-time 3D echocardiography became commercially available in 2002, it has rapidly been accepted in echo labs worldwide. This book covers all clinically relevant aspects of this fascinating new...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Three-dimensional echocardiography:  lessons in overcoming time and space
• Basic principles and practical application
• Left ventricular function
• Three-dimensional stress echocardiography
• Cardiac dyssynchrony
• The right ventricle
• Valvular heart disease – insufficiencies
• Valvular heart disease – stenoses
• Three-dimensional chocardiography in adult congenital heart disease
• Congenital heart disease in children
• Cardiac tumors and sources of embolism
• Monitoring and guiding cardiac interventions and surgery.