This book sets echocardiography within a routine clinical context. It aims to synthesise guidelines into a pragmatic clinical approach to real patients providing a step-by-step guide to performing, reporting and interpreting a study.
This book sets echocardiography within a routine clinical context. It aims to synthesise guidelines into a pragmatic clinical approach to real patients providing a step-by-step guide to performing, reporting and interpreting a study.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Camelia Demetrescu BSc, MSc, HSSE, is Consultant Clinical Scientist in Cardiology, with specialist interest in echocardiography, at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, and a Fellow of the Academy forHealthcare Science. Sandeep S Hothi MA, PhD, FACC, FBSE, FESC, FRCP, is Consultant Cardiologist and Clinician-Scientist with expertise in advanced cardiac imaging, and holds an Honorary Senior Clinical Lectureship with the University of Birmingham. John Chambers MD, FRCP, FESC, is Emeritus Professor of Clinical Cardiology at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital and KCL and was previously Head of Adult Echocardiography there.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Defining the study 2. Left ventricular dimensions and function 3. Acute coronary syndrome 4. The right ventricle 5. Pulmonary pressure and pulmonary hypertension 6. The atria and atrial septum 7. Cardiomyopathies 8. Aortic valve disease 9. Mitral valve disease 10. Right-sided valve disease 11. Mixed valve disease 12. Prosthetic heart valves 13. Endocarditis 14. The Heart valve clinic 15. The aorta and dissection 16. Adult congenital disease 17. Pericardial disease 18. Masses 19. Echocardiography in acute and critical care medicine 20. General clinical requests (Murmur, heart failure, stroke, cardiac arrhythmia, hypertension, cocaine, HIV, neuromuscular diseases, inflammatory diseases, hypereosinophilia, drugs causing valvopathy, radiation) 21. Appendices
