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Practical Echocardiography in the Adult :

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Practical Echocardiography in the Adult :

[Book]

with Doppler and color-Doppler flow imaging

by J.P.M. Hamer.

Dordrecht

Springer Netherlands

1990

(xv, 238 pages)

Developments in cardiovascular medicine, 109.

Foreword --;Preface --;Acknowledgements --;1. Principles of Ultrasound --;Terminology --;Types of systems --;Image quality --;The ultrasound beam --;frequency of the transducer --;focus --;axial resolution --;lateral resolution --;side lobes --;reverberations --;The medium --;Manipulation of echoes --;gain control --;reject control --;gray scale --;2. Trans-Thoracic Echocardioraphic Examination --;Position of the patient, examiner and equipment --;Standard transducer positions --;3. Trans-esophageal Echocardiographic Examination --;Indications --;Information for the patient --;Technique of introduction --;Transducer positions --;The esophagoscope --;4. Contrast Echocardiography --;5. Phonocardiography and Pulse Recording --;Phonocardiogram --;Pulse recordings --;Carotid pulse recording and systolic time intervals --;Apexcardiogram --;Liver pulse recording --;6. Principles of Doppler --;Continuous wave Doppler --;Pulsed Doppler --;Aliasing --;Angle --;Measurement of pressure differences --;Color Doppler --;Combined echo-Doppler examinations --;7. Doppler Examination --;Mitral valve --;LV outflow tract --;Aortic valve --;Ascending and descending aorta --;Pulmonic valve --;Tricuspid valve --;SVC, IVC and hepatic veins --;8. Heart Disease in the Adult --;Left Ventricle --;The normal left ventricle --;Echocardiographic evaluation --;transducer positions --;measurements --;Doppler evaluation --;Pulse recordings --;The abnormal left ventricle --;Local abnormalities --;wall motion --;ischemic heart disease --;conduction disturbances --;RV overload --;wall thickness --;hypertrophic (obstructive) cardiomyopathy --;thrombi --;tumors --;myocardial infarction and aneurysm --;Diffuse abnormalities --;Other diseases with myocardial involvement --;Right Ventricle --;The normal right ventricle --;Echocardiographic evaluation --;Doppler evaluation --;The abnormal right ventricle --;Right ventricular overload --;volume overload --;pressure overload --;Wall thickness --;Moderator band, double-chambered RV, --;sub-valvular pulmonic stenosis --;Pressure measurements --;Left Atrium --;The normal left atrium --;Transducer positions --;Size and measurements --;The abnormal left atrium --;Function --;Enlargement --;Right Atrium and Inferior Vena Cava --;The normal right atrium --;Transducer positions, size and measurements --;The abnormal right atrium --;Enlargement --;The inferior vena cava --;Diameters --;Aoatic Valve and Root --;The normal aortic valve and root --;In normal conditions --;In abnormal conditions --;The abnormal aortic valve and root --;Congenital abnormalities --;Aortic stenosis --;under-estimation of the severity --;over-estimation of the severity --;Aortic insufficiency --;direct features --;indirect features --;Mitral Valve --;The normal mitral valve --;Possible recordings of anatomical normal mitral leaflets --;in normal conditions --;in abnormal conditions --;The abnormal mitral valve --;Mitral insufficiency --;diagnosis and severity --;causes --;Mitral stenosis --;diagnosis and severity --;further evaluation of the severity --;under-estimation of the severity --;Pulmonic Valve --;The normal pulmonic valve --;Pulmonic stenosis --;Sub-valvular pulmonic stenosis --;Pulmonic insufficiency --;Tricuspid Valve --;The normal tricuspid valve --;Tricuspid stenosis --;Tricuspid insufficiency --;Prosthetic Valves --;Evaluation of prosthetic valve function --;Endocarditis and prosthetic valves --;Thoracic Aorta --;Coarctation --;Dissection --;Endocarditis --;Pericardial Diseases --;Pericardial effusion --;Constrictive pericarditis --;Pericardial cysts --;Congenital Cardiac Abnormalities in The Adult --;Atrial septal defect and abnormal drainage of pulmonary veins --;Ventricular septal defect --;Patent ductus arteriosus (Botalli) --;Ebstein's anomaly --;Intracardiac Masses --;Thrombi --;Myxoma's --;Malignancies --;Questionable recordings --;9. Echocardiography Report --;10. Anatomy, Nomenclature and Function of the Normal Heart --;Abbreviations.

Since the introduction of ultrasound in cardiology in the mid fifties, echocar- diography has continued to grow and has finally become, in particular after the introduction of Doppler modalities, the working horse of the cardiologist.

Cardiology.

Medicine.

by J.P.M. Hamer.

J P M Hamer

[Book]

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