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Springer Contrast Echocardiography 1st Editon 2011 Softbound by Richard S. Meltzer, J.R. Roelandt
Why a book on contrast echocardiography? Over the past dozen years enough experience has accumulated to warrant a more extensive treatment of this method. Furthermore, there are new developments that suggest increased clinical utility for contrast echocardiography in the future. This book aims to summarize the 'state of the art' for those interested in echocardiography - presumably mainly cardiologists, but here and there those of a more technical bent will find useful information as well. We feel that a more basic understanding of microbubble dynamics is necessary to advance research for such applications as transmission through the lungs, videodensitometric quantitation of cardiac output, intracardiac shunts, etc. All of these topics are extensively dealt with. The reader will note that many of the clinical chapters are written by pediatric cardiologists. This is only natural, since shunt detection and analysis of flow relationships are relatively more important in congenital heart diseases, and cur rently represent the most important uses for contrast echo cardiography in day-to day practice. 1. An introduction to contrast echocardiography.- A. Physical principles and theoretic considerations.- 2. The source of echocardiographic contrast.- 3. Contrast agents for diagnostic ultrasound.- 4. Why capillary beds remove ultrasonic contrast.- 5. Ultrasonic studies during experimental decompression.- B. Clinical applications.- 6. Methodology in contrast echocardiography.- 7. Structure identification by contrast echocardiography.- 8. Spontaneous left ventricular microbubbles in patients with metallic mitral prosthetic valves.- 9. Contrast echocardiography of the left ventricle.- 10. Pulmonary wedge injections for the evaluation of left-to-right shunts.- 11. Factors affecting the success of attaining left heart echo contrast after pulmonary wedge injections.- 12. Echo contrast for the detection of atrial septal defects.- 13. Negative contrast echocardiography for the diagnosis of atrial septal defects.- 14. Contrast echocardiography in patent foramen ovale.- 15. Echo contrast studies in the early postoperative period after atrial septal defect closure.- 16. Two-dimensional contrast echocardiography in the study of ventricular septal defects.- 17. Contrast echocardiography for evaluation of right ventricular hemodynamics in the presence of ventricular septal defects.- 18. Contrast echocardiography in valvular regurgitation.- 19. Contrast echocardiography in persistent fetal circulation.- 20. Applications of contrast echocardiography for analysis of complex congenital heart disease in the newborn.- 21. Contrast echocardiography in the assessment of cyantic and complex congenital heart disease: peripheral venous, invasive, and unique applications.- 22. Contrast M-mode echocardiography, the suprasternal notch approach.- C. Future prospects.- 23. Determination of cardiac output by two-dimensional contrast echocardiography.- 24. Videodensitometric quantitation of left-to-right shunts with contrast echocardiography.- 25. Transmission of echocardiographic contrast through the lungs.- 26. Precision microbubbles for right side intracardiac pressure and flow measurements.- 27. Microbubble tracking with echo Doppler.- Index of subjects.- Index of authors.