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The ultimate echo guide / editor, Carlos A. Roldan.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Echocardiography--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Echocardiography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (270 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2005]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This multi-authored concise guide provides rapid access to the most common cardiac diseases where echo plays an important role in diagnosis, prognosis, therapy, and follow-up. Designed for practical, daily use, succinct chapters are in outline format and grouped according to disease. Each chapter follows a common organization and includes definition; etiology; incidence and prevalence; class I indications for echo based on AHA/ACC guidelines; best tomographic planes; key diagnostic features, including pitfalls; diagnostic formulas; diagnostic accuracy; parameters to stratify severity of disease; parameters indicating need for invasive intervention; and parameters of prognostic value. The Ultimate Echo Guide is also available electronically for PDAs. See Media listing for details.
- Contents:
- The normal color doppler echocardiogram / Carlos A. Roldan
- Coronary artery disease / Carlos A. Roldan
- Ventricular systolic dysfunction / William A. Zoghbi and Juan Carlos Plana
- Ventricular diastolic function / Robert A. Taylor
- Pulmonary hypertension and cor pulmonale / Anita Kedia and Carlos A. Roldan
- Mitral regurgitation / Phoebe A. Ashley and Carlos A. Roldan
- Mitral stenosis / Carlos A. Roldan
- Aortic regurgitation / Carlos A. Roldan
- Aortic valve sclerosis and aortic valve stenosis / Kirsten Tolstrup and Carlos A. Roldan
- Tricuspid and pulmonic valve disease / Dara K. Lee and Carlos A. Roldan
- Prosthetic valve dysfunction / Michael H. Crawford
- Common adult congenital heart diseases / Carlos A. Roldan
- Infective endocarditis / Carlos A. Roldan
- Intracardiac masses: tumors and systemic embolism / Gerald A. Charlton
- Diseases of the aorta / Robert J. Seigel and Takashi Miyamoto
- Pericardial diseases / Carlos A. Roldan.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4698-7648-5
- OCLC:
- 874968248
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