DESCRIPTION:
In Practice of Clinical Echocardiography, world-renowned authority Dr. Catherine M. Otto offers expert guidance on interpreting echocardiographic images and Doppler flow data and applying your findings to your daily clinical decision making. This medical reference book keeps you current on the latest advances and techniques, so you can implement the best possible approaches with your patients!
New to This Edition:
- Access the complete contents online from your laptop or mobile device - anytime, anywhere - plus clinical cases, multiple-choice questions, videos, and eFigures.
- Stay current on the latest advances with a new chapter on echo-guided interventions for structural heart disease, extensive coverage of technical aspects of image and data acquisition, and many other essential updates.
CONTENTS:
Part 1. ADVANCED ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES
1. Transesophageal echocardiography
2. Monitoring Ventricular Function in the Operating Room: Impact on Clinical Outcome
3. Contrast Ultrasound Imaging: Technical Aspects and Clinical Applications
4. Three-Dimensional Echocardiography
5. Echocardiographic guidance of structural heart disease interventions
6. Intracardiac Echocardiography
7. Intravascular ultrasound: Principles, histologic correlation and clinical applications
8. Hand held echocardiography
Part 2. THE LEFT VENTRICLE
9. Quantitative evaluation of left ventricular structure, wall stress, and systolic function
10. Myocardial mechanics: Velocity, strain, strain-rate, cardiac synchrony, and twist
11. Assessment of diastolic function by echocardiography
12. Digital image processing and automated image analysis in echocardiography
Part 3. ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE
13. The role of echocardiographic evaluation in patients presenting with acute chest pain to the emergency department
14. Echocardiography in the coronary care unit: Management of acute myocardial infarction, detection of complications and prognostic implications
15. Exercise echocardiography
16. Stress echocardiography with nonexercise techniques: Principles, protocols, interpretation, and clinical applications
17. Echocardiographic Evaluation of Coronary Blood Flow: Approaches and Clinical Applications
Part 4. VALVULAR HEART DISEASE
18. Mitral valve anatomy, quantification of mitral regurgitation intervention for mitral regurgitation
19. Intraoperative echocardiography in surgical and transcatheter mitral valve repair
20. Aortic valve regurgitation: quantitation of disease severity and timing of surgical intervention
21. Echocardiography in the patient undergoing catheter balloon mitral valvotomy: patient selection, hemodynamic results, complications and long-term outcome
22. Clinical decision-making in patients with infective endocarditis: the role of echocardiography
23. Aortic stenosis: Disease severity, progression, timing of intervention, and role in monitoring transcatheter valve implantation
24. Fluid dynamics of prosthetic valves
25. Echocardiographic recognition and quantitation of prosthetic valve dysfunction
Part 5. CARDIOMYOPATHIES AND PERICARDIAL DISEASE
26. Doppler echocardiography in heart failure and cardiac resynchronization
27. Echocardiography in the evaluation and management of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
28. Restrictive cardiomyopathy: diagnosis and prognostic implications
29. Pericardial Disease
30. Cardiac transplantation: pre and post transplant evaluation
31. Cardiac assist devices: normal findings, device failure and weaning parameters
Part 6. THE RIGHT HEART
32. Right ventricular anatomy, function and echocardiographic evaluation
33. Echocardiographic evaluation of the patient with pulmonary hypertension
34. Right sided valve disease
Part 7. THE PREGNANT PATIENT
35. The role of echocardiography in the diagnosis and management of heart disease in pregnancy
Part 8. VASCULAR AND SYSTEMIC DISEASES
36. Aortic dissection and trauma: Value and limitations of echocardiography
37. Echocardiographic findings in systemic diseases characterized by immune-mediated injury
38. Echocardiography in the evaluation of cardiac disease endocrinopathies, renal, disease, obesity and nutritional deficiencies
39. Echocardiography in patients with inherited connective tissue disorders
40. Aging changes seen on echocardiography
41. Echocardiographic evaluation of the patient with a systemic embolic event
42. The role of chocardiography in atrial fibrillation and flutter
Part 9. ADULT CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE AND CARDIAC TUMORS
43. General echocardiographic approach to the adult with suspected congenital heart disease
44. Echocardiographic evaluation of the adult with unoperated congenital heart disease
45. Echocardiographic evaluation of the adult with post-operative congenital heart disease
46. Cardiac tumors
