Stress echocardiography /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Picano, Eugenio, 1958-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2003]
Edition:Fourth edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Stress echocardiography : a historical perspective (or how I ate my father)
  • Anatomical and functional targets of stress testing
  • Symptoms and signs of myocardial ischemia
  • Rational basis of stress echocardiography
  • Echocardiographic signs of ischemia
  • Segmentation of the left ventricle
  • Right ventricular ischemia in stress echocardiography
  • Pathogenetic mechanisms of stress
  • Stress echocardiography : instructions for use
  • Exercise echocardiography
  • Dobutamine stress echocardiography
  • Dipyridamole stress echocardiography
  • Adenosine stress echocardiography
  • Pacing stress echocardiography
  • Ergonovine stress echocardiography for the diagnosis of vasospastic angina
  • Hyperventilation test
  • Grading of ischemic response
  • Diagnostic results and indications
  • Echocardiographic recognition od myocardial viability
  • Diagnostic flowcharts
  • Prognosis
  • Tissue harmonic imaging, anatomical M-mode, and three-dimensional imaging in stress echocardiography
  • New technologies in stress echocardiography : tissue doppler and strain rate imaging
  • New technologies in stress testing : acoustic quantification and color kinesis
  • Tissue characterization
  • Transesophageal echocardiography for evaluation of coronary artery disease
  • Myocardial contrast stress echocardiography
  • 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
  • Special subsets of electrocardiographically defined patients : normal coronary arteries, single-vessel disease, left main coronary artery disease, major noncardiac vascular surgery, patients undergoing coronary revascularization
  • Special subsets of electrocardiographically defined patients : left bundle branch block, right bundle branch block, atrial fibrillation
  • Special subsets of clinically defined patients : elderly, women, outpatients, diabetics, chest pain unit patients
  • Microvascular disease : syndrome X, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and arterial hypertension
  • Stress echocardiography in dilated cardiomyopathy
  • Stress echocardiography after cardiac transplantation
  • Stress doppler echocardiography in valvular heart disease
  • Stress echocardiography versus cardiac magnetic resonance imaging
  • Stress echocardiography and nuclear imaging
  • Coronary flow reserve
  • Endothelial function in the stress echocardiography laboratory
  • Ulysses' Syndrome