Echo Made Easy

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This best-selling and highly-praised book provides a practical and clinically useful introduction to echo. The author explains the echo techniques available, what an echo can and cannot give, and, importantly, puts echo into a clinical perspective. The sections are ordered with the techniques most often used to diagnose a particular clinical problem explained first. The final chapter deals with special clinical situations.This highly-praised book is a simple guide to a difficult subject, written in a conversational and accessible style. It is essential reading for anyone wishing to learn about echo - doctors, technicians, medical students etc.It provides full practical coverage of the clinical aspects of heart disease.It will be of great use to those experienced in echo as a refresher and reference source in pocket-size.Fully updated with the many recent advances in echocardiography.Now presented in full colour throughout with new illustrations.New sections on device therapy for heart failure (cardiac resynchronization therapy, CRT) and the use of echo and TOE (or TEE) in special situations.Expanded sections on diastolic function and tissue Doppler imaging.Additional material on the newer echo techniques such as 3-D echo, stress echo and contrast echo.Special clinical situations now include pulmonary embolism, pericardial disease, advanced age, athletic heart and obesity. Front cover Echo Made Easy Copyright page Preface Acknowledgements Table of Contents Abbreviations CHAPTER 1: What is echo? 1.1 BASIC NOTIONS 1.2 VIEWING THE HEART 1.3 ECHO TECHNIQUES 1.4 THE NORMAL ECHO 1.5 WHO SHOULD HAVE AN ECHO? 1.6 MURMURS CHAPTER 2: Valves 2.1 MITRAL VALVE (MV) 2.2 AORTIC VALVE (AV) 2.3 TRICUSPID VALVE (TV) 2.4 PULMONARY VALVE (PV) CHAPTER 3: Doppler – velocities and pressures 3.1 SPECIAL USES OF DOPPLER CHAPTER 4: Heart failure, myocardium and pericardium 4.1 HEART FAILURE 4.2 ASSESSMENT OF LV SYSTOLIC FUNCTION 4.3 CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE 4.4 CARDIOMYOPATHIES AND MYOCARDITIS 4.5 DIASTOLIC FUNCTION 4.6 RIGHT HEART AND LUNGS 4.7 LONG-AXIS FUNCTION 4.8 PERICARDIAL DISEASE 4.9 DEVICE THERAPY FOR HEART FAILURE – CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY CHAPTER 5: Transoesophageal and stress echo and other echo techniques 5.1 TRANSOESOPHAGEAL ECHO 5.2 STRESS ECHO 5.3 CONTRAST ECHO 5.4 THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3-D) ECHO 5.5 ECHO IN SPECIAL HOSPITAL SETTINGS CHAPTER 6: Cardiac masses, infection, congenital abnormalities 6.1 CARDIAC MASSES 6.2 INFECTION 6.3 ARTIFICIAL (PROSTHETIC) VALVES 6.4 CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES CHAPTER 7: Special situations and conditions 7.1 PREGNANCY 7.2 RHYTHM DISTURBANCES 7.3 HYPERTENSION AND LVH 7.4 STROKE, TIA AND THROMBOEMBOLISM 7.5 BREATHLESSNESS AND PERIPHERAL OEDEMA 7.6 SCREENING AND FOLLOW-UP ECHO 7.7 ADVANCED AGE 7.8 ECHO ABNORMALITIES IN SOME SYSTEMIC DISEASES AND CONDITIONS Conclusions Further reading Index