Echocardiology

ISBN-13: 9789400993266 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 508 str.

C.T. Lancee

Opis

This Symposium is the third of a series of scientific meetings in the field of echocardiology, held at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. * The series was initiated by Klaas Born, who organized the first two meetings with great success. These followed the procedure of two days of parallel sessions with invited speakers only. This time, we decided to broaden the basis of the meeting and have a three-day program of parallel sessions, combining invited papers, free com munications and posters. We decided, however, to maintain one of the most striking features of the last meeting- having the complete proceedings available at the time of the meeting. We confronted the authors-to-be with a very tight schedule in order to make the book a true reflection of the state of the art in echocardiology. As a 'result, editing time was also very limited and neither terminology nor units have been completely standardized. This book has three main parts. The first, and largest, part consists of contributions on echocardiology in adults, and is divided into four sections. The first section is a general survey of various applications, whereas the remaining three centre round specific applications, i.e. ischemic disease, left ventricular function and cardiac valves, respectively. The second part con tains applications in pediatric cardiology; due to the wide variety of topics covered, no particular subdivision has been made. The last part of the book is devoted to instrumentation, methods and new developments."

Recenzje

`The book is well produced, contains a wealth of information and should certainly find a place on most bookshelves.'
Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 6 (1980)

Spis treści

I. Echocardiology in Adults.- A. General Applications.- Echo-mechanocardiographic assessment of cardiac dynamics.- A comprehensive approach to cardiac measurements.- The contribution of digitized echocardiography to clinical cardiology.- Usefulness of M-mode and cross-sectional echocardiography for analysis of right-sided heart disease.- Determination and consequences of bias and random error in echocardiographic measurements.- Differences in the echocardiographic dimensions of the heart between females and males.- Assessment of atrial septal defects by cross-sectional echocardiography.- A combined echocardiographic and phonocardiographic study on the genesis of diastolic heart sounds.- Subxiphoid versus standard M-mode echocardiography.- Absolute intracardiac blood velocities measured with continuous wave Doppler and a new real-time spectral display.- B. Applications in Ischemic Disease.- Sensitivity and specificity of M-mode and cross-sectional echocardiographic findings in patients with coronary artery disease.- Ultrasonic imaging of experimental myocardial infarcts.- Cross-sectional echocardiography in acute myocardial infarction.- Effect of coronary artery occlusion and reperfusion on the time course of myocardial wall thickness.- Echocardiographic changes in vasospastic angina.- Assessment of regional wall motion in coronary artery disease by two-dimensional echocardiography.- Analysis of ventricular asynergy in myocardial infarction: a study with real-time cross-sectional echocardiography.- C. Applications in Left Ventricular Function Analysis.- Abnormal left ventricular relaxation and diastolic filling patterns in left-sided heart disease.- Correlations between aortic root motion and left atrial volume changes.- Abnormal mitral valve motion, septal hypertrophy and left ventricular outflow tract obstruction. Echocardiographic and haemodynamic study in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy.- Echo-pressures relationship before and after hemodynamic changes.- Effect of Wolf-Parkinson-White syndrome pre-excitation on left ventricular function, assessed by M-mode and cross-sectional echocardiography with intracardiac electrophysiological recording.- Assessment of left ventricular diastolic viscous forces by combined echopressure measurements in men.- Left ventricular function and interventricular septal motion in mitral stenosis: echocardiographic abnormalities.- Systolic blood flow pattern estimated from multiple sectorscan pulsed Doppler velocimetry.- Atrial septal defect and paradoxical septal motion: an echocardiographic artefact.- The effects of training on left ventricular dimensions and performance.- D. Applications in Cardiac Valve Studies.- Sector scanning and M-mode in aortic root and valve disease.- Reliability of M-mode and cross-sectional echocardiographic criteria for the diagnosis of mitral valve disorders.- M-mode and two-dimensional echocardiographic features of porcine valve dysfunction.- Echocardiographic assessment of infective endocarditis on Hancock xenograft.- Direct assessment of aortic valvular stenosis by cross-sectional echocardiography.- Pre- and postoperative echocardiograms in patients with discrete type subaortic stenosis.- Detection of tricuspid regurgitation with pulsed Doppler echocardiography.- Mitral valve prolapse with aortic root dilatation: an echocardiographic study.- Quantitation of aortic regurgitation by a percutaneous 128-channel digital ultrasound Doppler instrument.- Mechanism of systolic anterior motion in patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, evaluated by phased array sector-scanning.- Critical evaluation of the pulmonary valve echocardiogram: usefulness and limitations of E-F slope measurements.- Echocardiographic detection of mitral regurgitation (MR) in mitral valve prolapse (MVP).- Validity of echo-pulsed Doppler velocimetry for assessing the diagnosis and severity of aortic valve disease and prosthetic valve function.- Echocardiographic detection of aortic insufficiency in the presence of mitral stenosis.- II. Pediatric Echocardiology.- Deductive echocardiographic diagnosis in congenital heart disease.- New techniques for echocardiographic evaluation of cardiac anatomy in congenital heart disease.- Percentiles of echocardiographic dimensions in healthy children and young adolescents. A population study in Dutch schools.- Accuracy of range gated pulsed Doppler echo for detecting the presence and localization of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction in children.- Visualization of mitral cleft in ostium primum atrial septal defect. A study with real-time cross-sectional echocardiography.- Cross-sectional echocardiographic features of anomalous systemic and coronary venous return.- Congenital heart disease studied with a high resolution linear array system.- Echocardiographic studies in patients with tricuspid atresia or single ventricle before and after Fontan procedure.- Echocardiographic evaluation of left ventricular inflow obstruction in children using an 80° two-dimensional sector-scanner.- Echocardiographic findings and function analysis in infants with endocardial fibroelastosis.- Pulsed Doppier echocardiography — Applications in pediatric cardiology.- Assessment of fetal and neonatal cardiac geometrics by means of real-time ultrasound.- III. Technological Aspects of Echocardiology.- Historical review of echo-instrumentation.- Current instrumentation.- A simplified ultrasound phased array sector scanner.- Ultrasonic array design and performance.- Possibilities and limitations of pulsed Doppler systems.- Real-time blood flow imaging.- Focussing by means of wave field extrapolation.- M/Q-mode echocardiography — The synthesis of conventional echo with digital multigate Doppler.- Ultrafast electronical image reconstruction device.- New sector-scan echographic imaging devices.- Structure recognition and data extraction in two-dimensional echocardiography.- Video tracing of M-mode echocardiograms.- Authors and subject index.