The Echocardiographers' Guide

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ISBN-13: 9781841844893
ISBN-10: 1841844896
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Format: Hardback, 208 pages
Pub Date: 07/2006
Edition Number: 1

Synopsis

The product of the author's combined fifty-four years of experience in cardiac ultrasound at university hospitals, The Echocardiographer's Guide is designed to fill the need for a practical and complete resource for all technologists and physicians performing transthoracic Doppler/echocardiographic examinations. Each of the six chapters focusing on particular areas of cardiac pathology is prefaced with a discussion of the relevant cardiac anatomy and physiology that is prerequisite to obtaining thoughtful and goal-oriented studies and complete diagnoses.

# Amply illustrated with over 300 figures, drawings and tables, this guide will benefit readers by providing the most detailed and straight-forward description available of methods to perform a transthoracic echocardiographic examination-integrating M-mode, 2-D imaging, color and spectral Doppler and emerging technologies, such as tissue Doppler imaging
# valuable technical "tricks of the trade", which can directly impact image quality and diagnosis
# a chapter on physics and instrumentation that focuses on those elements of each diagnostic modality that impact image formation and acquisition
# detailed instructions for the successful quantitation of left ventricular volumes and ejection fraction
# chapters on valvular heart disease and coronary artery disease that describe the structural remodeling that accompanies heart disease and newer surgical and percutaneous therapies, including Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
# an organized, segmental approach to complex congenital abnormalities