Pocket Guide to Echocardiography

Andro G. Kacharava, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GAAlexander Gedevanishvili, Director; Echocardiography Laboratory; West Georgia Medical Center; Lagrange, GAGoran Imnadze, Ph D, Moscow Scientific Center of Cardiovascular Surgery of A.N.BakulevDimitri Tsverava, MD, Ph D, Chief of Inpatient Services MediClubGeorgia (MCG) – Tbilisi, GeorgiaCraig M. Brodsky, MD, Cardiologist: Lewis, Gotlieb, Saltzman, Edep & Brodsky, PA, Boca Raton, FL

• Foreword by Navin C. Nanda viiPreface ixAbbreviations xi1 Comprehensive transthoracic echocardiographic examination protocol 12 Indications, contraindications and endpoints of dobutamine and exercise stress echocardiography 63 Types of stress echocardiography and reading template 84 Useful formulas and normal values 105 Guidelines for the safe use of echocardiography contrast 126 Atrial and ventricular dimensions 137 Coronary artery disease 218 Left ventricular systolic function and left ventricular diastolic patterns 239 Right ventricular systolic function and right ventricular diastolic patterns 2710 Dilated, hypertrophic and restrictive cardiomyopathies 3011 Pericardial effusion, cardiac tamponade, constrictive pericarditis 3112 Mitral stenosis 3213 Mitral valvuloplasty score 3314 Recommendations for data recording and measurement for mitral stenosis 3415 Mitral regurgitation 3616 Aortic regurgitation 3817 Aortic stenosis 3918 Recommendations for data recording and measurement for aortic stenosis 4019 Resolution of apparent discrepancies in measures of aortic stenois severity 4220 Pulmonic stenosis, pulmonic regurgitation, pulmonary hypertension 4321 Tricuspid regurgitation and tricuspid stenosis 4522 Infective endocarditis 4723 ACC/ASE recommendations for echocardiography in ineffective endocarditis 4824 Prosthetic valves 4925 Normal echocardiographic values for prosthetic valves 5126 Congenital heart disease 5327 Miscellaneous 5428 Aortic diseases 5529 Indication for surgery in aortic diseases 5630 Transthoracic echocardiographic and Doppler protocols for assessment of ventricular dyssynchrony 5731 Indications contraindications and complications of transesophageal echocardiographic examination 5932 Routine approach to any transesophageal echocardiographic and recommended views for evaluation of aorta 6133 Terminology used to describe manipulation of the probe and transducer during image acquisition 6234 Diagrams of standard transesophageal echocardiographic views 6335 Transesophageal echocardiographic measurements 6436 Transesophageal echocardiographic diagram of the regional blood supply to cardiac wall segments 6737 Transesophageal echocardiographic orientation for assessment of the mitral valve 6838 Diagrams of transesophageal echocardiographic views in the evaluation of the mitral valve 7039 References and Recommended Literature 72Supplement to pocket guide of echocardiography 75