Stress Echocardiography

Its Role in the Diagnosis and Evaluation of Coronary Artery Disease

Thomas H. Marwick (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

182 Seiten

2012 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-010-4335-9 (ISBN)

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W. F. ARMSTRONG While stress echocardiography is not the first technique to be applied to patients for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease, it represents an impor tant clinical tool, likely to become of increasing pertinence in today's era of cost containment and mandated cost-effectiveness of diagnosis. It may be the most rapidly expanding area of clinical echocardiography today. Stress echocardiography as we know it today represents the natural con clusion and merger of observations made over fifty years ago. In 1935 Tenn ant and Wiggers demonstrated that the immediate result of a coronary oc clusion, was an instantaneous abnormality of wall motion [1]. As viewed from the surface of the heart in an open chest dog preparation, cyanosis and obvious paradoxical bulging of the left ventricular wall was noted. At a similar time Masters and co-workers, using fairly rudimentary exercise de vices, described the response of the human cardiovascular system to sustained exercise (Figure 1) [2]. These two observations diverged for four decades while clinical investigation was pursued along the two parallel lines.

1. Basic Considerations in the Pathophysiology and Detection of Ischemic Left Ventricular Dysfunction.- 2. How to Perform Stress Echocardiography — Practical Aspects.- 3. Exercise Echocardiography.- Stress Echocardiography Using Exercise-Simulating Techniques.- 5. Stress Echocardiography with Vasoactive Agents.- 6. Comparison of Exercise and Pharmacologic Stress Echocardiography and Electrocardiography.- 7. Comparison of Stress Echocardiography and Scintigraphic Techniques for the Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease.- 8. Use of Stress Echocardiography for Assessment of Interventions and Medical Treatments.- 9. Prognostic Value of Stress Echocardiography.- 10. Echocardiographic Determination of Myocardial Viability.

Reihe/Serie	Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine ; 149
Zusatzinfo	XVII, 182 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 240 mm
Themenwelt	Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Kardiologie / Angiologie
	Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Radiologie / Bildgebende Verfahren ► Sonographie / Echokardiographie
	Technik
ISBN-10	94-010-4335-3 / 9401043353
ISBN-13	978-94-010-4335-9 / 9789401043359
Zustand	Neuware