Main description:

The brand new Echo Facts is a reference guide, study book and atlas for echocardiography. 252 pages full of the most recent guidelines and normal values, a lot of useful tips and tricks and more than 480 illustrations. It includes: - most recent guidelines and normal values - practical tips and tricks - over 480 illustrations - over 180 online video examples - 252 pages -plus 4 additional chapters: 3D, Deformation imaging, Contrast Echocardiography, Stress Echo.

Contents:

PRINCIPLES OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY
10 Physics of Ultrasound
11 2D Images
13 Artefacts
15 Optimizing 2D Images
15 MMode
16 Spectral Doppler
17 Flow Dynamics
18 Color Doppler

HOW TO IMAGE
22 How to Move the Transducer
22 Imaging Windows
28 Image View

HEART CHAMBERS AND WALLS
30 The Left Ventricle
32 LV Function
34 The Right Ventricle
37 The Left Atrium
40 The Right Atrium
41 Left Ventricular Hypertrophy

DIASTOLIC FUNCTION
46 Basics of Diastolic Dysfunction
51 Specific Situations

DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY
54 Background
54 Echo Features
55 Specific Forms

HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY
60 Basics
61 Echocardiographic Evaluation

RESTRICTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY
66 Basics
67 Specific Forms

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE
70 Segmental Approach
72 Wall Motion Abnormalities
76 Patterns of Myocardial Infarction
77 Complications

AORTIC STENOSIS
82 Basics
85 Quantification of Aortic Stenosis
88 Special Circumstances
89 Sub- and Supravalvular Aortic Stenosis
90 Indication for Aortic Stenos Surgery/Intervention

AORTIC REGURGITATION
94 Basics
97 Hemodynamic Calculation of Regurgitant Volume and Fraction
97 Proximal Isovelocity Surface Area (PISA) Method
98 Acute Aortic Regurgitation
98 Indications for Surgery in Severe AR (ESC 2012)

MITRAL STENOSIS
100 Introduction
102 Quantification
103 Mitral Valve Pressure Half-Time
104 Valvuloplasty

MITRAL REGURGITATION
108 Basics
108 Quantification of Mitral Regurgitation
111 Mechanisms of Mitral Regurgitation
116 Mitral Valve Prolapse
117 Flail Leaflet
117 Other Causes of Mitral Regurgitation
118 Indication for Surgery

TRICUSPID VALVE DISEASE
122 Basics
122 Causes of Tricuspid Regurgitation
124 Quantification of Tricuspid Regurgitation
125 Tricuspid Stenosis

PROSTHETIC VALVE
128 Types of Valves
129 Echo Assessment of Prosthetic Valves
133 Complications
137 Mitral Valve Repair

ENDOCARDITIS
140 Principles of Endocarditis
141 Native Valve Endocarditis
143 Complications of Native Valve Endocarditis
145 Right Heart Endocarditis
145 Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis
146 Pacemaker/Polymer-Associated Endocarditis
147 Non-Infective/Abacterial Endocarditis
148 Indications for Surgery

RIGHT HEART DISEASE
150 Basics of Pulmonary Hypertension
152 Echo Assessment of Pulmonary Hypertension
155 Disease of the Right Ventricle
155 Right Ventricular Infarction
156 Right Ventricular Hypertrophy
156 Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia

AORTIC DISEASE
160 Imaging of the Aorta
161 Basics
161 Aortic Aneuryms
164 Aortic Dissection
167 Aortic Coarctation (CoA)

PERICARDIAL DISEASE
170 The Pericardium
170 Pericardial Effusion
173 Pericardial Tamponade
175 Pericardial Constriction
176 Other Diseases of the Pericardium
TUMORS AND MASSES
180 Pseudotumours
181 Masses

CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE
188 Basics
188 Atrial Septal Defect (ASD)
191 Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO)
192 Ventricular Septal Defects (VSD)
194 Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA)
195 Coronary Fistulas
196 Tetralogy of Fallot
197 Transposition of the Great Arteries

STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY
202 Indications and Echocardiographic Features
203 Clinical Targets of Stress Echocardiography and Stress of Choice)
204 Stress Echocardiography – an Easy Approach
206 Stress Echo and “Other Echo Modalities”
207 Ischemia Testing
208 Viability Testing
209 Stress Echo in Low-Flow Low-Gradient Severe Aortic Stenosis

CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY
212 Principles
213 Contrast Agents
215 Applications of Echo Contrast
216 Right Heart Contrast
219 Quantification of Left Ventricular Function
221 Myocardial Perfusion Imaging

3D ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY
224 Basics of Three-Dimensional Echocardiography
224 Forms of 3D Echocardiography
227 3D Image Acquisition
227 Clinical Applications of 3D Echocardiography

MYOCARDIAL DEFORMATION IMAGING
236 Principles of Myocardial Mechanics
236 Measures of Myocardial Deformation
238 Tissue Doppler Imaging
241 Speckle Tracking Echocardiography
247 Clinical Applications of Myocardial Deforming Imaging