Echocardiography: A Practical Guide for Reporting and Interpretation

ISBN-13: 9781032151588 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 200 str.

UK) Demetresc London Camelia (Guys and St Thomas Hospitals

Opis

This book sets echocardiography within a routine clinical context. It aims to synthesise guidelines into a pragmatic clinical approach to real patients providing a step-by-step guide to performing, reporting and interpreting a study.

Spis treści

1. Defining the study
2. Left ventricular dimensions and function
3. Acute coronary syndrome
4. The right ventricle
5. Pulmonary pressure and pulmonary hypertension
6. The atria and atrial septum
7. Cardiomyopathies
8. Aortic valve disease
9. Mitral valve disease
10. Right-sided valve disease
11. Mixed valve disease
12. Prosthetic heart valves
13. Endocarditis
14. The Heart valve clinic
15. The aorta and dissection
16. Adult congenital disease
17. Pericardial disease
18. Masses 
19. Echocardiography in acute and critical care medicine
20. General clinical requests (Murmur, heart failure, stroke, cardiac arrhythmia, hypertension, cocaine, HIV, neuromuscular diseases, inflammatory diseases, hypereosinophilia, drugs causing valvopathy, radiation)
21. Appendices