Textbook Of Echocardiography

Description

This state-of-the-art book has 49 chapters and appendices, which cover all common aspects of echocardiography starting from basics to the current advanced techniques. All efforts have been made to maintain the quality and standard of the book. The book emphasizes on how to perform basic 2D and 3D echocardiography, and there are chapters fully dedicated on “How to perform two and three-dimensional echocardiography by the uninitiated”.

Both transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiographic techniques are described. There are separate chapters on chamber quantification, assessment of systolic, diastolic function, congenital and valvular heart disease. There are dedicated chapters on coronary artery disease, stress echocardiography and myocardial contrast echocardiography, emphasizing the need for strain analysis, regional wall motion abnormalities and ejection fraction. Great emphasis has been placed on the role of echocardiography during cardiac interventions. There are dedicated chapters on echocardiography for transcutaneous aortic valve replacement, mitral valve interventions, and structural heart disease interventions in both cardiac catheterization laboratory and surgical operation theatre.

The book further explores the value of echocardiography for electrophysiology: echo in patients with pacemakers and cardiac resynchronization therapy.

Table of Contents

1. Basics of Ultrasound
2. Introduction to Doppler Echocardiography
3. How to do Basic Transthoracic Echocardiography
4. How to do Transesophageal Echocardiograph
5. Chamber Quantification: Left Ventricle
6. Chamber Quantification: Right Ventricle
7. Chamber Quantification: LA and RA
8. Echocardiography in Pulmonary Hypertension
9. Diastolic Function
10. Echocardiographic Evaluation of Mitral Valve
11. Echocardiographic Evaluation of Mitral Stenosis
12. Mitral Regurgitation
13. Examination of Valves: Aortic Valve
14. Echocardiography in Aortic Stenosis
15. Echocardiography in Aortic Regurgitation
16. Echocardiographic Evaluation of the Aorta
17. Echocardiography for Cardiac Prevention
18. Echocardiographic Assessment of Pulmonary Valve
19. Assessment of Tricuspid Valve Disease
20. Prosthetic Heart Valve: Echocardiographic Evaluation
21. Pulmonary Thromboembolism
22. Tissue Doppler and Strain Imaging: Physical Principles and Clinical Applications
23. 4D Echocardiography
24. Coronary Artery Disease
25. Indian Academy of Echocardiography Guidelines and Manual for Performance of Stress Echocardiography in Coronary Artery Disease
26. Myocardial Contrast Echocardiography
27. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
28. Echocardiography in Dilated Cardiomyopathy
29. Restrictive Cardiomyopathy
30. Role of Echocardiography in Diagnosis of Acute Rheumatic Fever
31. Pericardium and Pericardial Diseases: An Echocardiographic Study
32. Pediatric Transthoracic Echocardiography: Basic Views
33. Echocardiographic Assessment of Acyanotic Congenital Heart Diseases
34. Congenital Cyanotic Heart Disease
35. Echo in the Emergency Room
36. Cardiac Tumors
37. Echocardiography in Infective Endocarditis
38. Diseases Affecting the Heart: A Bird’s Eye View
39. Artifacts in Echocardiography
40. Interventional and Fusion Echocardiography
41. Echocardiography for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement
42. Echocardiography in Percutaneous Mitral Valve Interventions
43. Intravascular Ultrasound
44. Echocardiographic Examination of a Patient with Pacemaker
45. Echocardiography in Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
46. Left Atrial Appendage
47. Echocardiography for Interventions in Congenital Heart Diseases:Left-to-right Shunt Lesions
48. Echocardiography in Operation Theater
49. Echocardiographic Practices in India: Legal Issues
50. Appendices
51. Author’s Index
52. Index