Echo made easy. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sam Kaddoura.
• Authors: Kaddoura, Sam
• Contents: 1. What is echo? -- Basic notions - Viewing the heart -- Echo techniques -- The normal echo -- Who should have an echo? -- Murmurs -- 2. Valves -- Mitral valve (MV) -- Aortic valve (AV) -- Tricuspid valve (TV) -- Pulmonary valve (PV) -- 3. Doppler - velocities and pressures -- Special use of Doppler -- Continuity equation -- 4. Heart failure, myocardium and pericardium -- Heart failure -- Assessment of LV systolic function -- Coronary artery disease -- Cardiomyopathies and myocarditis -- Diastoic function -- Right heart and lungs -- Long-axis function -- Pericardial disease -- Device therapy for heart failure - cardiac resynchronization therapy -- 5. Transoesophageal, 3-D and stress echo and other echo techniques -- Transoesophageal echo -- Stress echo -- Contrast echo -- Three-dimensional (3-D) echo -- Echo in special hospital settings -- 6. Cardiac masses, infection, congenital abnormalities and aorta -- Cardiac masses -- Infection -- Artificial (prosthetic) valves -- Congenital abnormalities -- Aorta -- 7. Special situations and conditions -- Pregnancy -- Rhythm disturbances -- Stroke, TIA and thromboembolism -- Hypertension and LVH -- Breathlessness and peripheral oedema -- Screening and follow-up echo -- Advanced age -- Echo abnormalities in some systemic diseases and conditions -- Individuals with cancer -- 8. Performing and reporting on echo -- Performing an echo -- Reporting an echo.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Subjects: 616.1/207547; Echocardiography; Echocardiography -- methods; Heart Diseases -- diagnostic imaging; Echocardiography
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780702066719; 0702066710
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