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      MAKING SENSE of Echocardiography
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      MAKING SENSE of Echocardiography

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      MAKING SENSE of Echocardiography book

      A hands-on guide

      MAKING SENSE of Echocardiography

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      MAKING SENSE of Echocardiography book

      A hands-on guide
      ByAndrew R. Houghton
      Edition 2nd Edition
      First Published 2014
      eBook Published 19 August 2014
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint CRC Press
      DOI https://doi.org/10.1201/b15360
      Pages 352
      eBook ISBN 9780429186332
      Subjects Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing & Allied Health
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      Houghton, A.R. (2014). MAKING SENSE of Echocardiography: A hands-on guide (2nd ed.). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/b15360

      ABSTRACT

      Echocardiography is one of the most useful and powerful diagnostic tools in the assessment of cardiac function. It remains a rapidly expanding modality, with new techniques constantly developing and maturing. Building on the success of the original work, the second edition of Making Sense of Echocardiography: A Hands-on Guide provides a timely, acc

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      part 1|38 pages

      Essential principles

      chapter 1|2 pages

      History of echocardiography

      chapter 2|7 pages

      Cardiac anatomy and physiology

      chapter 3|11 pages

      Physics and instrumentation

      chapter 4|9 pages

      Doppler physics

      chapter 5|4 pages

      Service provision

      part 2|76 pages

      Cardiac imaging techniques

      chapter 6|19 pages

      The standard transthoracic echo study

      chapter 7|8 pages

      Transoesophageal echo

      chapter 8|9 pages

      Stress echo

      chapter 9|4 pages

      Contrast echo

      chapter 10|3 pages

      Tissue Doppler imaging

      chapter 11|10 pages

      Myocardial mechanics and speckle tracking

      chapter 12|10 pages

      3D echo

      chapter 13|2 pages

      Intravascular ultrasound and epicardial echo

      chapter 14|6 pages

      Alternative cardiac imaging techniques

      part 3|188 pages

      Clinical cases

      chapter 15|17 pages

      The left ventricle and its systolic function

      chapter 16|7 pages

      Coronary artery disease and regional left ventricular function

      chapter 17|6 pages

      Left ventricular diastolic function

      chapter 18|5 pages

      The left atrium

      chapter 19|16 pages

      The aortic valve

      chapter 20|19 pages

      The mitral valve

      chapter 21|27 pages

      The right heart

      chapter 22|11 pages

      Heart valve repair and replacement

      chapter 23|8 pages

      Endocarditis

      chapter 24|10 pages

      The cardiomyopathies

      chapter 25|10 pages

      The pericardium

      chapter 26|9 pages

      The aorta

      chapter 27|9 pages

      Cardiac masses

      chapter 28|14 pages

      Congenital heart disease

      chapter 29|10 pages

      Common echo requests

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