This best-selling
and highly-praised book provides a practical and clinically useful introduction
to echo. The author explains the echo techniques available, what an echo can
and cannot give, and, importantly, puts echo into a clinical perspective. The
sections are ordered with the techniques most often used to diagnose a
particular clinical problem explained first. The final chapter deals with
special clinical situations.
- This highly-praised book is a
simple guide to a difficult subject, written in a conversational and
accessible style. It is essential reading for anyone wishing to learn
about echo - doctors, technicians, medical students etc.
- It provides full practical
coverage of the clinical aspects of heart disease.
- It will be of great use to those
experienced in echo as a refresher and reference source in pocket-size.
- Fully updated with the many
recent advances in echocardiography.
- Now presented in full colour
throughout with new illustrations.
- New sections on device therapy
for heart failure (cardiac resynchronization therapy, CRT) and the use of
echo and TOE (or TEE) in special situations.
- Expanded sections on diastolic
function and tissue Doppler imaging.
- Additional material on the newer
echo techniques such as 3-D echo, stress echo and contrast echo.
- Special clinical situations now
include pulmonary embolism, pericardial disease, advanced age, athletic
heart and obesity.
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