Die Beitrage des Buches "Fortschritte der Echokardiographie" basieren auf Vortra gen, die auf einem wissenschaftlichen Kongress im Februar 1985 in Mainz gehalten wurden. Der Kongress wurde dankenswerterweise durch die Arbeitsgemeinschaft Echokardiographie der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Herz- und Kreislaufforschung unterstutzt. Zu den Hauptthemen - Funktionsdiagnostik des Herzens, Kontrastecho kardiographie, transosophageale Echokardiographie und Dopplerechokardiogra phie - wurden wissenschaftliche Beitrage geliefert. Im ersten Teil des Buches steht die Funktionsdiagnostik des linken...

Echocardiography has been one of the most significant advances in cardiology in the past two decades. It can provide anatomic, functional hemodynamic, and blood flow information. Conventional transtho racic echocardiography has limitations, particularly in certain patients such as those with obesity, chronic lung disease, or chest wall defor mity, or in those where a transthoracic approach is difficult for reasons including trauma, life support apparat uses, and surgical dressings. There are also certain disease states or conditions in which transtho racic echocardiography expectedly gives...

This issue of Heart Failure Clinics covers stress (takotsubo) cardiomyopathy. Expert authors review the most current information available about imaging modalities, clinical profile, natural history, management, and different types of stress cardiomyopathy. Keep up-to-the-minute with the latest developments in diagnosing and managing this condition.

This is the first book to present an overview of the exciting new cardiac imaging technique of tissue Doppler echocardiography (TDE). In order to understand the background of this technique, it is necessary to compare the physical properties of blood, which reflects ultrasound poorly but moves with high velocity (up to 150 cm/s) with those of the myocar- dium, which reflects ultrasound strongly but moves with low velocity (less than 10 cm/s). In tissue Doppler imaging, existing Doppler technology has been modified to bypass the high-pass filter and enhance calculation of low velocities, thus...

This book contains the manuscripts of the majority of the papers given during the symposium 'Improvement of Myocardial Perfusion' which was held from Sep- tember 27-29,1984 in Mainz/Germany. It has been the purpose of this meeting to focus the interest of scientifically and clinically interested cardiologists on the new developments in this field. We therefore chose the subtitle 'Medical-Mechanical -Surgical Approach'. The medical improvements in myocardial perfusion have been brought about by the application of streptokinase, urokinase and tissue-type plasminogen ac- tivator in the first...