Cardiac Doppler Diagnosis, Volume II

Front Matter....Pages I-X
A history of echocardiography....Pages 1-13
Physics for ultrasonic diagnosis....Pages 15-38
Time interval histogram — An alternative in the detection of the maximum velocity in the heart....Pages 39-45
Velocity profiles in the aortic arch and Doppler determination of cardiac output: The normal and the pathological....Pages 47-64
Influence of the geometry of the ascending aorta upon the velocity profile....Pages 65-71
Convenient monitoring of cardiac output and global left ventricular function by transcutaneous aortovelography — an update....Pages 73-91
Exercise Doppler cardiography....Pages 93-105
Value of real-time two-dimensional Doppler flow imaging in cardiology....Pages 107-117
Development of real-time two-dimensional Doppler echocardiography and its clinical significance....Pages 119-132
Quantification of heart valve regurgitation by jet intrusion....Pages 133-140
Quantitative evaluation of aortic and mitral stenosis by continuous wave Doppler echocardiography....Pages 141-150
A new approach to noninvasive estimation of stenotic orifice area in semilunar valve stenosis by Doppler echocardiography....Pages 151-155
Evaluation of left ventricular diastolic filling by a pulse Doppler flowmeter in patients with coronary artery disease....Pages 157-167
Assessment of left ventricular end-diastolic pressure by Doppler velocity analysis across the mitral valve....Pages 169-178
Doppler echocardiography in congestive cardiomyopathy and heart failure....Pages 179-194
Effects of diltiazem on left ventricular diastolic behavior in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Evaluation with exercise pulse Doppler echocardiography....Pages 195-203
The disturbance of left ventricular inflow by prolapsing and non-prolapsing left atrial myxoma: Estimation with pulse Doppler echocardiography....Pages 205-214
Evaluating the fetal circulation by combined pulsed Doppler and 2-D echocardiography....Pages 215-220
Application of multigate pulsed Doppler systems in congenital heart disease....Pages 221-228
Assessment of systemic to pulmonary artery anastomoses by pulsed Doppler echocardiography....Pages 229-241
Back Matter....Pages 243-244