Echocardiographer's Guide

Designed to fill the need for a practical and complete resource for all technologists and physicians performing transthoracic Doppler/echocardiographic examinations, The Echocardiographer's Guide is the product of the author's combined fifty-four years of experience in cardiac ultrasound at university hospitals. Highly illustrated with over 300 figures, drawings and tables, this text includes: a chapter on physics and instrumentation that provides an overview of those elements of each diagnostic modality that impact on image formation and acquisition sections on systolic and diastolic function, which present up-to-date and practical methods of evaluation and quantitation chapters on valvular heart disease and coronary artery disease that describe the structural remodeling that accompanies heart disease and newer surgical and percutaneous therapies, including Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy a chapter on congenital heart disease with detailed instruction on the use of an organized, segmental approach to complex congenital abnormalities. Suitable for both the novice echocardiographer, who will benefit from the detailed and straightforward description of how to perform a transthoracic echocardiographic examination, and the experienced practitioner, who will gain valuable technical know-how, The Echocardiographer's Guide is undoubtedly an important addition to published literature in this field.Plappert, Ted is the author of 'Echocardiographer's Guide', published 2006 under ISBN 9781841844893 and ISBN 1841844896.