Main description:

T his book teaches the key knowledge required for the use of ultrasound to guide many catheter based cardiac therapies. While live CME courses are now covering this material there are very few textbooks on this topic. A unique aspect of
this book is that it has many images to illustrate the teaching points. The use of minimally invasive treatments of
many cardiac diseases especially by catheter based therapies and devices is a
rapidly expanding discipline in cardiology and radiology. Cardiac ultrasound particularly
echocardiography is utilized extensively to guide these therapies. Many echocardiographers are being called upon
to guide these therapies but they have not been trained in this unique use of
echocardiography.

Contents:

TEE-guided cardioversion.- Transcatheter aortic valve replacement.- ASD closure.- Closure of paravalvular leaks.- VSD closure.- Transcatheter repair of the mitral valve.- LA appendage closure.- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy - alcohol septal ablation.- Percutaneous mitral valvotomy.- Catheter based removal of intracardiac thrombus.- OCT/IVUS role in coronary interventions.- Retrieving embolized devices.- Role of imaging in mechanical circulatory support of the heart.