DESCRIPTION:
Advanced Approaches in Echocardiography - a volume in the exciting new Practical Echocardiography Series edited by Dr. Catherine M. Otto - provides practical, how-to guidance on advanced and challenging echocardiographic techniques such as 3D echo, contrast echo, strain echo, and intracardiac echo. Definitive, expert instruction from Drs. Linda D. Gillam and Catherine M. Otto is presented in a highly visual, case-based approach that facilitates understanding and equips you to master these difficult and cutting-edge modalities.
Access the full text online along with cases, procedural videos and abundant, detailed figures and tables that show you how to proceed, step by step, and get the best results.
CONTENTS:
1. Transthoracic three dimensional echocardiography
2. Transesophageal real time three-dimensional echocardiography
3. Three dimensional echocardiographic evaluation of the right ventricle
4. Transthoracic and transesophageal echo in the Cath laboratory
5. Intracardiac echocardiography
6. Strain and strain-rate imaging (speckle and DTI)
7. Assessing Twist and Torsion
8. Echocardiographic tools for CRT
9. Contrast perfusion echocardiography
10. Other tools for assessing coronary flow
11. Stress echocardiography for structural heart disease
12. Multimodality cardiac imaging
