Last edition Elsevier Echocardiography (echo), the use of ultrasound to examine the heart, is a powerful and safe technique which is now widely available for cardiovascular investigation. This simple and highly praised text is a practical and clinically useful introduction to the subject. It aims to explain the echo techniques available, outlines what they are most suitable for, and most importantly puts echo into a clinical perspective. This book will be of value to all those who use or request echo, particularly doctors in training and medical students, but also physicians, surgeons, general practitioners, technicians, nurses and paramedics.
Last Edition
ISBN 13:h9780702066573
Imprint:hElsevier
Language:hEnglish
Authors:hSam Kaddoura
Pub Date:h09/2016
Pages:h304
Illus:h215 illustr/95 in full color
Weight:h420.00 grams
Size:h138 X 216 mm
Product Type:hSoftcover
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- • This Third Edition takes full account of recent advances in echocardiography.
- • A new chapter on performing and reporting an echo has been added. New text has been added on the role of echo in individuals with cancer and in diseases of the aorta.
- • There are updated and expanded sections on pregnancy, the continuity equation, diastolic function, long-axis function and 3-D echo.
- • There are also updates and more detailed sections on the use of echo in emergency situations, in cardiomyopathies and pericardial diseases, in congenital abnormalities and in cardiac resynchronization therapy. Up-to-date published international guidelines have been referenced throughout.
- • New online content is available in the form of echo video images with accompanying self-assessment questions which will allow the reader to carry out self-assessment of knowledge and to see examples of the echos described in the text.
- Sam Kaddoura, BSc(Hons), BMBCh(Oxon), PhD, DIC, FRCP, FESC, FACC, Consultant Cardiologist, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and Royal Brompton Hospital, London; Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, Royal Hospital Chelsea, London; Honorary Senior Lecturer, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UK
- 1. What is echo?
- 2. Valves
- 3. Doppler - velocities and pressures
- 4. Heart failure, myocardium and pericardium
- 5. Transoesophageal and stress echo
- 6. Cardiac masses, infection and congenital abnormalities
- 7. Special situations and conditions Conclusions
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