Essentials of Echocardiography & Cardiac Hemodynamics

This cardiac text provides a basic overview of instrumentation, cardiac anatomy, M-mode, 2D, and spectral Doppler principles. Additionally, this text is also designed to provide a comprehensive review of state-of-the-art Doppler methods for assessment of right heart pressures, aortic stenosis, aortic regurgitation, mitral stenosis, mitral regurgitation, LV diastolic fillng, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and much more. This book focuses on the practical day-to-day application of Doppler methods. High quality black and white illustrations and Doppler tracings are used to illustrate Doppler methods and present case studies with questions and answers for review.