Echocardiology

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Echo-mechanocardiographic assessment of cardiac dynamics....Pages 5-13
A comprehensive approach to cardiac measurements....Pages 15-27
The contribution of digitized echocardiography to clinical cardiology....Pages 29-35
Usefulness of M-mode and cross-sectional echocardiography for analysis of right-sided heart disease....Pages 37-47
Determination and consequences of bias and random error in echocardiographic measurements....Pages 49-51
Differences in the echocardiographic dimensions of the heart between females and males....Pages 53-60
Assessment of atrial septal defects by cross-sectional echocardiography....Pages 61-65
A combined echocardiographic and phonocardiographic study on the genesis of diastolic heart sounds....Pages 67-72
Subxiphoid Versus Standard M-Mode Echocardiograpy....Pages 73-76
Absolute intracardiac blood velocities Measured with Continuous wave Doppler and a new real-time spectral display....Pages 77-80
Sensitivity and Specificity of M-Mode and Cross-Sectional Echocardiographic Findings in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease....Pages 83-98
Ultrasonic Imaging of Experimental Myocardial Infarcts....Pages 99-106
Cross-Sectional Echocardiography in Acute Myocardial Infarction....Pages 107-109
Effect of Coronary Artery Occlusion and Reperfusion on the Time Course of Myocardial Wall Thickness....Pages 111-117
Echocardiographic Changes in Vasospastic Angina....Pages 119-124
Assessment of Regional Wall Motion in Coronary Artery Disease by Two-Dimensional Echocardiography....Pages 125-129
Analysis Of Ventricular Asynergy In Myocardial Infarction....Pages 131-134
Abnormal Left Ventricular Relaxation and Diastolic Filling Patterns in Left-Sided Heart Disease....Pages 137-145
Correlations Between Aortic Root Motion and Left Atrial Volume Changes....Pages 147-152
Abnormal Mitral Valve Motion, Septal Hypertrophy and Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction: Echocardiographic and Haemodynamic Study in Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy....Pages 153-158
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Echo-Pressures Relationship Before and After Hemodynamic Changes....Pages 159-165
Effect of Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome Pre-Excitation on Left Ventricular Function, Assessed by M-Mode and Cross-Sectional Echocardiography with Intracardiac Electrophysiological Recording....Pages 167-170
Assessment of Left Ventricular Diastolic Viscous Forces by Combined Echo-Pressure Measurements in Men....Pages 171-174
Left Ventricular Function and Interventricular Septal Motion in Mitral Stenosis: Echocardiographic Abnormalities....Pages 175-179
Systolic Blood Flow Pattern Estimated from Multiple Sector-Scan Pulsed Doppler Velocimetry....Pages 181-184
Atrial Septal Defect and Paradoxical Septal Motion: An Echocardiographic Artefact....Pages 185-189
The Effects of Training on Left Ventricular Dimensions and Performance....Pages 191-193
Sector Scanning and M-Mode in Aortic Root and Valve Disease....Pages 197-202
Reliability of M-Mode and Cross-Sectional Echocardiographic Criteria for the Diagnosis of Mitral Valve Disorders....Pages 203-212
M-Mode and Two-Dimensional Echocardiographic Features of Porcine Valve Dysfunction....Pages 213-217
Echocardiographic Assessment of Infective Endocarditis on Hancock Xenograft....Pages 219-223
Direct Assessment of Aortic Valvular Stenosis by Cross-Sectional Echocardiography....Pages 225-228
Pre- and Postoperative Echocardiograms in Patients with Discrete Type Subaortic Stenosis....Pages 229-231
Detection of Tricuspid Regurgitation with Pulsed Doppler Echocardiography....Pages 233-235
Mitral Valve Prolapse with Aortic Root Dilation: An Echocardiographic Study....Pages 237-240
Quantitation of Aortic Regurgitation by a Percutaneous 128-Channel Digital Ultrasound Doppler Instrument....Pages 241-243
Mechanism of Systolic Anterior Motion in Patients with Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy Evaluated by Phased Array Sector-Scanning....Pages 245-248
Critical Evaluation of the Pulmonary Valve Echocardiogram: Usefulness and Limitations of E-F Slope Measurements....Pages 249-253
Echocardiographic Detection of Mitral Regurgitation (MR) in Mitral Valve Prolapse (MVP)....Pages 255-260
Validity of Echo-Pulsed Doppler Velocimetry for Assessing the Diagnosis and Severity of Aortic Valve Disease and Prosthetic Valve Function....Pages 261-266
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Echocardiographic Detection of Aortic Insufficiency in the Presence of Mitral Stenosis....Pages 267-273
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Deductive Echocardiographic Diagnosis in Congenital Heart Disease....Pages 277-286
New Techniques for Echocardiographic Evaluation of Cardiac Anatomy in Congenital Heart Disease....Pages 287-298
Percentiles of Echocardiographic Dimensions in Healthy Children and Young Adolescents....Pages 299-307
Accuracy of Range Gated Pulsed Doppler Echo for Detecting the Presence and Localization of Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction in Children....Pages 309-314
Visualization of Mitral Cleft in Ostium Primum Atrial Septal Defect....Pages 315-318
Cross-Sectional Echocardiographic Features of Anomalous Systemic and Coronary Venous Return....Pages 319-323
Congenital Heart Disease Studied with a High Resolution Linear Array System....Pages 325-334
Echocardiographic Studies in Patients with Tricuspid Atresia or Single Ventricle Before and after Fontan Procedure....Pages 335-340
Echocardiographic Evaluation of left Ventricular Inflow Obstruction in Children Using an 80° Two-Dimensional Sector Scanner....Pages 341-344
Echocardiographic Findings and Function Analysis in Infants with Endocardial Fibroelastosis....Pages 345-348
Pulsed Doppler Echocardiography — Applications in Pediatric Cardiology....Pages 349-354
Assessment of Fetal and Neonatal Cardiac Geometrics by Means of Real-Time Ultrasound....Pages 355-358
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Historical Review of Echo-Instrumentation....Pages 361-371
Current Instrumentation....Pages 373-383
A Simplified Ultrasound Phased Array Sector Scanner....Pages 385-393
Ultrasonic Array Design and Performance....Pages 395-412
Possibilities and Limitations of Pulsed Doppler Systems....Pages 413-419
Real-Time Blood Flow Imaging....Pages 421-428
Focussing by Means of Wave Field Extrapolation....Pages 431-440
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M/Q-Mode Echocardiography....Pages 441-446
Ultrafast Electronical Image Reconstruction Device....Pages 447-450
New Sector-Scan Echographic Imaging Devices....Pages 451-455
Structure Recognition and data Extraction in two-Dimensional Echocardiography....Pages 457-467
Video Tracing Of M-Mode Echocardiograms....Pages 469-475
Errata....Pages 491-491
Erratum to: Subxiphoid Versus Standard M-Mode Echocardiograpy....Pages 491-491
Erratum to: Analysis Of Ventricular Asynergy In Myocardial Infarction....Pages 491-491
Erratum to: Mitral Valve Prolapse with Aortic Root Dilation: An Echocardiographic Study....Pages 491-491
Erratum to: Possibilities and Limitations of Pulsed Doppler Systems....Pages 491-491
Back Matter....Pages 477-489