Echocardiology

Front Matter....Pages I-XX
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Echocardiography as the Diagnostic Investigation before Cardiac Surgery....Pages 3-8
Intraoperative Applications of Two-Dimensional and Contrast Two-Dimensional Echocardiography for Evaluation of Congenital, Acquired and Coronary Heart Disease in Open-Chested Humans during Cardiac Surgery....Pages 9-23
Long-Term Control of Left Ventricular Function after Aortocoronary Bypass Surgery by Two-Dimensional Echocardiography....Pages 25-31
Evaluation of the St. Jude Medical Valve Prosthesis in the Mitral Position....Pages 33-38
Echocardiography of the Aortic Valve....Pages 39-53
Two-Dimensional Suprasternal Echocardiography in Diseases of the Thoracic Aorta....Pages 55-60
Visualization of the Coronary Arteries by Two-Dimensional Echocardiography....Pages 61-72
Two-Dimensional Echocardiography and Indium-111 Platelet Scintigraphy in the Diagnosis of Left Ventricular Thrombi — Competitive or Complementary....Pages 73-79
Quantitative Two-Dimensional Echocardiography in Coronary Artery Disease....Pages 83-91
Early Detection of Acute Myocardial Ischaemia and Infarction by Cross-Sectional Echocardiography....Pages 93-98
Dynamic Exercise Cross-Sectional Echocardiography: Comparison with Coronary Arteriography and Radionuclide Angiography....Pages 99-102
Comparison of Regional Wall Motion Determined by Two-Dimensional Echocardiography, Radionuclide Angiography, and Left Ventriculography....Pages 103-107
Detection of Transient Myocardial Ischemia by M-Mode Echocardiography in Man....Pages 109-116
Echocardiographic Differential Diagnosis of Congestive Cardiomyopathy and Advanced Coronary Heart Disease....Pages 117-122
Does Echocardiography Aid in the Management of Acute Myocardial Infarction?....Pages 123-130
Quantification from Two-Dimensional Echocardiographic Images....Pages 131-143
Quantitative Analysis of the Adult Left Heart by Echocardiography....Pages 145-161
Determination of Left Ventricular Volume from Apical Orthogonal Two-Dimensional Echocardiograms....Pages 163-166
Echocardiographic Changes during a One-Year Exercise Program in Previously Sedentary Normal Middle-Aged Men....Pages 167-170
Prediction of Coronary Artery Disease in Hypertension....Pages 171-177
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Patients on Chronic Hemodialysis....Pages 179-188
Determination of Quantitative Left Ventricular Function by M-mode Echocardiography Together with Other Noninvasive Parameters....Pages 189-197
Mean Velocity of Fiber Shortening as Linear Function of Heart Rate and Wall Stress: Noninvasive Measurements....Pages 199-203
The Evaluation of Left Ventricular Performance by Simultaneous Recording of Two-Dimensional Echocardiogram and Left Ventricular Pressure....Pages 205-207
Structure Identification by Contrast Echocardiography....Pages 211-218
Contrast Echocardiography of the Left Ventricle....Pages 219-232
Contrast Echocardiography in Valvular Regurgitation....Pages 233-243
Determination of Cardiac Output by Two-Dimensional Contrast Echocardiography....Pages 245-253
Analysis of Right Heart Blood Flow from Contrast Patterns on the Echocardiogram....Pages 255-262
Comparison of Microbubble Detection by M-Mode Echocardiography and Two-Dimensional Echo/Doppler Techniques....Pages 263-267
Pulsed-Doppler Systems and Cardiovascular Disease....Pages 269-278
Doppler Echocardiography and Valvular Regurgitation, with Special Emphasis on Mitral Insufficiency: Advantages of Two-Dimensional Echocardiography with Real-Time Spectral Analysis....Pages 279-290
Combined Pulsed-Doppler Echocardiography for the Investigation of Valvular Heart Diseases: One-Dimensional Versus Two-Dimensional Approach....Pages 291-298
Diagnosis and Assessment of Tricuspid Regurgitation with Doppler Ultrasound....Pages 299-304
Front Matter....Pages 305-305
Segmental Analysis of Congenital Heart Disease. A Correlation between Pathology and Echocardiography....Pages 307-321
Erroneous Interpretation of Echocardiograms in Congenital Cardiac Abnormalities Consequent to Anatomic Variability....Pages 323-332
Quantitative Assessment of Congenital Heart Disease by Two-Dimensional Echocardiography....Pages 333-344
The Spectrum of Atrioventricular Valve Atresia: A Two-Dimensional Echocardiographic/Pathological Correlation....Pages 345-353
The Detection and Assessment of Straddling and Overriding Atrioventricular Valves by Two-Dimensional Echocardiography....Pages 355-361
Two-Dimensional Echocardiography for Pre- and Post-Surgical Evaluation of Atrioventricular Canal Malformations....Pages 363-370
Front Matter....Pages 305-305
Contrast M-Mode Echocardiography, the Suprasternal Notch Approach....Pages 373-381
Evaluation of Right-to-Left Intracardiac Shunting in Newborns by Contrast Echocardiography....Pages 383-393
Contrast Echocardiography in Univentricular Hearts....Pages 395-398
A Twenty-Month Experience Comparing Conventional Pulsed-Doppler Echocardiography and Color-Coded Digital Multigate Doppler, for Detection of Atrioventricular Valve Regurgitation, and Its Severity....Pages 399-407
A Combined Doppler Echocardiographic Investigation in Premature Infants with and without Respiratory Distress Syndrome....Pages 409-415
Fetal Cardiac Activity....Pages 417-423
Fetal Obstruction of the Foramen Ovale Detected by Two-Dimensional Doppler Echocardiography....Pages 425-429
Front Matter....Pages 431-431
M-Mode Scanning with Automatic Gain Control....Pages 433-441
Pulsed-Doppler with Real-Time Fourier Transform....Pages 443-447
Three-Dimensional Imaging and Volume Determination Using a Series of Two-Dimensional Ultrasonic Scans....Pages 449-454
Present Status of Tissue Identification....Pages 455-460
Precision Microbubbles for Right Side Intracardiac Pressure and Flow Measurements....Pages 461-472
Back Matter....Pages 473-476