This book provides readers with extensive information on the interaction between echocardiography and the clinical management of patients. In doing so it helps readers to 'cross the barrier' and describes the common ground between physiologic disturbances and their management which should ideally form the shared basis for understanding and managing all cardiac problems.
A practical review of the many uses of echocardiography in clinical practice, this new edition of Clinical Echocardiography integrates and refines the investigation of cardiac disorders within the framework of the physiologic, pathologic, clinical and surgical appearances of heart disease. It has been common to consider echocardiographic findings separately from the more physical aspects of heart disease. However, with the development of new imaging modalities such as three- and four-dimensional echocardiography, it is now necessary to consider this imaging as a window on the heart. This comprehensive book aids the cardiologist, cardiac surgeon and echocardiographer to integrate their knowledge within the overall management of cardiac disease in a clinically relevant manner.
Mitral Valve.- Aortic Valve.- Tricuspid Valve.- Pulmonary Valve.- Valve
Substitutes.- Infective Endocarditis.- Coronary Artery Disease.- tress
Echocardiography.- Dilated Cardiomyopathy.- Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.-
Restrictive Cardiomyopathy.- Pulmonary Hypertension.- Echocardiography in
advanced heart failure.- Cardio-Oncology.- The Left Atrium.- Cardiac Tumors.-
Pericardial Disease.- Simple Adult Congenital Heart Lesions.- Management of
atrial septal defect (ASD) and patent foramen ovale (PFO).- Carotid
Scanning.- Diseases of the Aorta.- Cardiac function and renal disease.
Professor Michael Henein is a Consultant Cardiologist specialising in all aspects of general cardiology, transthoracic, stress and transoesophageal echo and carotid scanning, with a broad experience in cardiac CT. Following 15 years at the Royal Brompton Hospital, Professor Henein held the Chair of Cardiology at Umea University, Sweden for the subsequent 15 years and now he is a Professor at Imperial College London.
Professor Henein is also the Founder and Editor in Chief of the International Cardiovascular Forum Journal, and serves as a Guest Editor for the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Frontier of Cardiovascular Medicine and Heart failure as well as the Journal of Diagnostics. He has supervised 25 PhD theses and over 100 MSc thesis in Cardiology and has published over 450 papers in peer review journals.
