Three-dimensional echocardiography is the most recent fundamental advancement in echocardiography with a strong impact on almost all clinical and research applications of echocardiography.
This book covers all aspects of 3D echocardiography, from its basic principles to clinical application and detailed descriptions of specific uses in clinically important heart disease. Includes more than 150 case examples, 800 images and 500 videos on DVD.
Foreword.- Three-dimensional echocardiography: lessons in overcoming time and space.- Basic principles and practical application.- Left ventricular function.- Three-dimensional stress echocardiography.- Cardiac dyssynchrony.- The right ventricle.- Valvular heart disease - insufficiencies.- Valvular heart disease - stenoses.- Three-dimensional echocardiography in adult congenital heart disease.- Congenital heart disease in children.- Cardiac tumors and sources of embolism.- Monitoring and guiding cardiac interventions and surgery.- Subject index.