DESCRIPTION:
This is the only book on the market that specifically addresses cardiac blood flow findings, reviewing blood pressure tracings collected from the cardiac catheterization lab on all aspects of cardiovascular disease, as well as normal cardiac function. This edition includes revised and updated chapters on mitral stenosis and pulse alterations, low-gradient aortic valve stenosis, pulmonary balloon valvuloplasty, coronary hemodynamics for angioplasty and stenting after myocardial infarction, and more. It is an indispensable tool for physicians, nurses, and students measuring and interpreting cardiac waveforms in cardiac diagnosis and monitoring.
CONTENTS:
SECTION I: FUNDAMENTALS OF HEMODYNAMIC WAVEFORMS.
PART 1: HEMODYNAMIC WAVEFORMS: NORMAL AND PATHOLOGIC.
1.1 Pressure Waves: Measurement systems and Artifacts.
1.2 Right Heart Hemodynamics.
1.3 The Tricuspid V Wave.
1.4 Left-Sided V Wave.
1.5 The LVEDP.
1.6 Simultaneous RV and LV pressure.
1.7 The effects of NTG.
1.8 Pulsus Alternans.
PART 2: VALVULAR HEMODYNAMICS.
2.1 Aortic Valve.
2.1.1 The Stenotic Aortic Valve.
2.1.2 Low-Gradient Aortic Valve Stenosis.
2.1.3 The Regurgitant Aortic Valve.
2.1.4 Aortic Regurgitation.
2.1.5 Prosthetic Aortic Root And Valve.
2.1.6 Acute Aortic Insufficiency.
2.2 The Mitral Valve.
2.2.1 Mitral Valve Gradients.
2.2.2 Multivalvular Regurgitant Lesions.
2.3 The Pulmonary Valve.
PART 3: VALVULOPLASTY.
3.1.1 Percutaneous Aortic Balloon Valvuloplasty.
3.1.2 Percutaneous Mitral Balloon Valvuloplasty.
3.1.3 Percutaneous Pulmonic Balloon Valvuloplasty.
PART 4: CONSTRICTIVE PHYSIOLOGY.
4.1 Pericardial Compressive Hemodynamics.
4.2 Dynamics of Ventricular Pressure Interactions.
4.3 Criteria of Constrictive Physiology.
4.4 Cardiac Tamponade.
PART 5: ARRHYTHMIAS.
5.1 Cardiac Arrhythmias.
5.2 Pacemaker Arrhythmias.
PART 6: HOCM.
PART 7: CORONARY HEMODYNAMICS.
PART 8: ADULT CONGENTIAL ANOMALIES AND HEMODYANMICS.
PART 9: EXTRA HEARTS.
PART 10: RIGHT VENTRICULAR INFARCTION.
SECTION II: CLINICAL AND BEDSIDE APPLICATIONS OF HEMODYNAMICS.
1. Evaluation of Dyspnea.
2. Evaluation of Edema and Anasarca.
3. Evaluation of Syncope.
4. Evaluation of Hypotension, low cardiac output.
