Stress echocardiography / Eugenio Picano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Picano, Eugenio, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stress echocardiography.

Echocardiography--methods.

Stress--physiopathology.

Exercise Test.

Coronary Disease--diagnosis.

Medical Subjects:

Echocardiography--methods.

Stress--physiopathology.

Exercise Test.

Coronary Disease--diagnosis.

Physical Description:

xiv, 306 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Springer, [1997]

Contents:

1 Stress Echocardiography: A Historical Perspective (or How I Ate My Father) / Eugenio Picano 1

2 Anatomical and Functional Targets of Stress Testing / Eugenio Picano 17

3 Symptoms and Signs of Myocardial Ischemia / Eugenio Picano 27

4 Rational Basis of Stress Echocardiography / Eugenio Picano 37

5 Echocardiographic Signs of Ischemia / Eugenio Picano 45

6 Segmentation of the Left Ventricle / Eugenio Picano 57

7 Right Ventricular Ischemia in Stress Echocardiography / Jose Alberto San Roman, Isidre Vilacosta 67

8 Pathogenetic Mechanisms of Stress / Eugenio Picano 75

9 Stress Echocardiography: Instructions for Use / Eugenio Picano 91

10 Exercise Echocardiography / Eugenio Picano 103

11 Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography / Eugenio Picano 115

12 Dipyridamole Stress Echocardiography / Eugenio Picano 133

13 Adenosine Stress Echocardiography / Miodrag Ostojic, Ana Djordjevic-Dikic, Eugenio Picano 155

14 Pacing Stress Echocardiography / Eugenio Picano 165

15 Ergonovine Stress Echocardiography for the Diagnosis of Vasospastic Angina / Jae-Kwan Song 173

16 Hyperventilation Test / Eugenio Picano 183

17 Grading of Ischemic Response / Eugenio Picano 189

18 Diagnostic Results and Indications / Eugenio Picano 199

19 Echocardiographic Recognition of Myocardial Viability / Eugenio Picano 213

20 Diagnostic Flowcharts / Eugenio Picano 231

21 Prognosis / Eugenio Picano 239

22 Tissue Harmonic Imaging, Anatomical M-Mode, and Three-Dimensional Imaging in Stress Echocardiography / Donato Mele 253

23 New Technologies in Stress Echocardiography: Tissue Doppler and Strain Rate Imaging / Genevieve Derumeaux 263

24 New Technologies in Stress Testing: Acoustic Quantification and Color Kinesis / Jeanne M. DeCara, Roberto M. Lang 275

25 Tissue Characterization / Eugenio Picano 291

26 Transesophageal Echocardiography for Evaluation of Coronary Artery Disease / Attila Palinkas, Eugenio Picano 299

27 Myocardial Contrast Stress Echocardiography / Thomas R. Porter, Lucia Venneri, Feng Xie 311

28 Special Subsets of Angiographically Defined Patients: Normal Coronary Arteries, Single-Vessel Disease, Left Main Coronary Artery Disease, Major Noncardiac Vascular Surgery, Patients Undergoing Coronary Revascularization / Eugenio Picano, Rosa Sicari 329

29 Special Subsets of Electrocardiographically Defined Patients: Left Bundle Branch Block, Right Bundle Branch Block, Atrial Fibrillation / Eugenio Picano, Lauro Cortigiani 339

30 Special Subsets of Clinically Defined Patients: Elderly, Women, Outpatients, Diabetics, Chest Pain Unit Patients / Eugenio Picano, Emilio Pasanisi 345

31 Microvascular Disease: Syndrome X, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, and Arterial Hypertension / Eugenio Picano 355

32 Stress Echocardiography in Dilated Cardiomyopathy / Eugenio Picano, Alexander Neskovic, Lorenza Pratali 369

33 Stress Echocardiography After Cardiac Transplantation / Christoph H. Spes, Christiane E. Angermann 377

34 Stress Doppler Echocardiography in Valvular Heart Disease / Jean-Louis J. Vanoverschelde, Agnes Pasquet 387

35 Stress Echocardiography Versus Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Heiko Mahrholdt, Anja Wagner, Robert M. Judd, Udo Sechtem 403

36 Stress Echocardiography and Nuclear Imaging / Tom Marwick 419

37 Coronary Flow Reserve / Eugenio Picano, Fausto Rigo, Jorge Lowenstein 437

38 Endothelial Function in the Stress Echocardiography Laboratory / Eugenio Picano 455

39 Ulysses' Syndrome / Eugenio Picano, Gaetano Mottola 469.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3540626204

OCLC:

37031320