This chapter will help you save lives. You will need echo for Risk assessment and the diagnosis of myocardial rupture, ischemic VSD, right ventricular infarct and thrombi.
Learn how to quantify pulmonary pressure. Right heart disease is more common than you think and echo will lead you the diagnosis. From pulmonary embolism and right heart failure to tricuspid regurgitation.
In chapter 3 we already dealt with mitral regurgitation. Here you will see many more examples and learn why patients develop mitral regurgitation in the first place.
One you know how to use color Doppler it is easy to detect aortic regurgitation. But there is more you should know about this entity if you want to manage your patients.
Transesophageal- and transthoracic echo belong together. Learn when and how to use it. Your first step into an important modality that is not only used in cardiology.
If you don’t want to miss an endocarditis-, myocarditis or pericarditis then you will need to watch this chapter. Learn more about the incredible power of both transthoracic and transesophageal echo.
Detection of a pericardial effusion is one of the easiest tasks in echocardiography. This chapter will show you how to make the diagnosis and which additional information it provides.
Over 250.000 prosthetic valves are implanted worldwide each year. So you will definitely see such patients. But how can you tell if prosthetic function is normal? We will show you in this chapter.
Do you know how to assess the risk for surgery with echo? Which factors influence the postoperative outcome and what to look for in patients who underwent cardiovascular surgery? These are some of the topics discussed in this chapter.