Easy Echocardiogram Examination

Author: Cadu Dour
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: This book elaborates on the clinical applications of echocardiography, with concise and essential content, easy-to-understand explanations, and beautifully illustrated diagrams, making it easier to understand and accept. It is suitable for engineers in internal medicine, pediatrics, geriatrics, and cardiology. In terms of content, the first part of the book introduces the basic physics principles of ultrasound imaging, routine transthoracic echocardiographic views, the ultrasound imaging characteristics of different cardiac structures, and normal reference values. The second part covers special echocardiographic examination techniques, including the indications and contraindications of transesophageal echocardiography and stress echocardiography. Finally, different chapters discuss the applications of echocardiography in various pathological conditions, such as the ultrasound diagnosis of heart failure patients, the echocardiographic diagnosis of patients with cor pulmonale, the ultrasound diagnosis of intracardiac masses and congenital heart diseases, and the monitoring role of intraoperative echocardiography. It comprehensively analyzes the diagnostic key points of special manifestations of different disease states in echocardiography.