The EACVI Echo Handbook

Concise, fact-based and packed with images and illustrations The EACVI Echo Handbook is the perfect companion for making both every day and complex clinical decisions. Designed and written by leading experts in the field of echocardiography for use in the clinical arena, this practical handbook provides the necessary information for reviewing, or consulting while performing or reporting on an echo or making clinical decisions based on echo findings. Disease-focussed and succinct, it covers the information needed to accurately perform and interpret echocardiograms, including how to set up the echo-machine to optimize an examination and how to perform echocardiographic disease assessment; the clinical indicators, procedures and contraindications. Linked to EACVI recommendations and the EACVI Core Curriculum The EACVI Echo Handbook is an essential and easily accessible manual on using echocardiography for sonographers and trainee cardiologists that should never be left behind when performing an echocardiogram.

Autorentext

Patrizio Lancellotti is Professor of Cardiology at Unviersity of Liege, CHU Sart Tilman, Liege, Belgium where he also acts as director of the Cardiogist Intensive Unit and is the head of the Echo Lab and Heart Valve Clinic. He is currently President of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging and has been a board memeber of the European Association of Echocardiography since 2004. Bernard Cosyns is Professor of Cardiology at Free University of Brussels. Has been a memeber of the European Association of Echocardiography since 2004. He is currently an executive board member of the European Society of Cardiology.

Inhalt

Part 1. How to set up the echo-machine to optimize your examination; 1 How to set up the echo-machine to optimize your examination; Part 2. The standard transthoracic echo-examination; 2 2D echo and M-Mode echo; 3 Doppler echocardiography; 4 Functional echocardiography; 5 3D echocardiography; 6 Left ventricular opacification with contrast echocardiography; 7 The storage and report; Part 3. The standard transoesophageal echocardiographic examination; 8 Clinical indications, procedures and contraindications; 9 2D examination; 10 Continuous, colour flow Doppler and pulse wave examination; 11 3D examination; 12 The storage and report; Part 4. Assessment of left ventricular systolic dysfunction; 13 Assessment of left ventricular systolic dysfunction; Part 5. Assessment of diastolic function / dysfunction; 14 Assessment of diastolic function / dysfunction; Part 6. Ischaemic heart disease; 15 Ischaemic heart disease; 16 Chronic ischaemic cardiomyopathy; 17 Coronary arteries; Part 7. Heart valve disease; 18 Aortic stenosis; 19 Pulmonary stenosis; 20 Subvalvular and supravalvular stenosis; 21 Mitral stenosis; 22 Tricuspid stenosis; 23 Aortic regurgitation; 24 Mitral regurgitation; 25 Tricuspid regurgitation; 26 Pulmonary regurgitation; 27 Multivalvular disease; 28 Prosthetic valves; 29 Endocarditis; Part 8. Cardiomyopathies; 30 Dilated cardiomyopathy; 31 Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; 32 Restrictive cardiomyopathy; 33 Myocarditis; 34 Tako-Tsubo; 35 Arrythmogenic RV cardiomyopathy; Part 9. Right heart function and pulmonary artery pressure; 36 RV function; 37 Volume overload; 38 Pressure overload; Part 10. Pericardial disease; 39 Pericardial effusion; 40 Constrictive pericarditis; 41 Pericardial cysts; 42 Congenital absence of pericardium; Part 11. Cardiac transplants; 43 Cardiac transplants; Part 12. Critically ill patients; 44 Critically ill patients; Part 13. Congenital Heart Disease; 45 Pathological intercavity communications; 46 Persistent left superior vena cana; 47 Ebstein's anomaly; 48 Tetralogy of fallot after repair; 49 Aortic coarctation; Part 14. Cardiac masses and potential sources of embolism; 50 Vegetations; 51 Thrombi; 52 Cardiac tumours; 53 Miscellaneous non-neoplastic intracardiac masses; 54 Extracardiac masses; 55 Structures mistaken for abnormal cardiac masses; Part 15. Diseases of the aorta; 56 Aortic dissection; 57 Thoracic aortic aneurysm; 58 Traumatic injury of the aorta; 59 Aortic atherosclerosis; 60 Sinus of valsalva aneurysm; Part 16. Stress echo; 61 Procedure guide; 62 Dypiridamole; 63 Adenosin; 64 Diobutamine; 65 Stress echo assessment of haemodynamics and valves; Part 17. Systemic disease and other conditions; 66 Athlete's heart; 67 Heart during pregnancy; 68 Systemic diseases