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Preface
List of Contributors
Pt. 1 Doppler Assessment of Valve and LV Function I
1 Clinical Application of the Analysis of Diastolic Mitral Inflow: Differentiation of Restriction and Constriction 3
2 Noninvasive Assessment of Left Ventricular Systolic and Diastolic Function Using Doppler Mitral Regurgitant Velocity Profile 13
3 What does Pulmonary Vein Flow Analysis Add to the Assessment of Left Ventricular Hemodynamics? 23
Pt. 2 Doppler Assessment of Valve and LV Function II
4 Doppler Echocardiographic Assessment of Mitral Valve Stenosis Before and After Balloon Catheter Valvuloplasty 39
5 Dynamics of the Intraventricular Diastolic Flow Velocity Profile in Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy 51
6 Is Ultrasound of Clinical Value in the Management of Heart Transplant Patients? 61
7 Quantification of Mitral Regurgitation Using Amplitude-Weighted Mean Velocity 71
8 Contrast Color Doppler-Echocardiography. Improved Diagnosis of Mitral and Tricuspid Regurgitation 79
Pt. 3 New Clinical Frontiers of Echocardiography I
9 Three-dimensional Reconstruction of the Mitral Valve 91
10 Determination of Left Ventricular Volume of Means of a Transpulmonary Echocardiographic Contrast Agent 103
11 Preliminary Clinical Experience with Intracoronary Albunex: a Standardized Echocontrast Agent 109
12 Influence of ACE-inhibition on Diastolic LV-function in Patients with CHD 121
13 Dobutamine or Dipyridamole Echocardiography: Which Test for Which Patient? 129
Pt. 4 New Clinical Frontiers of Echocardiography II
14 Identification of Viable Myocardium: Dobutamine Echocardiography Versus Positron Emission Tomography 143
15 Ultrasonic Backscatter Imaging for Characterization of Cardiac Structure and Function 159
16 Role of Transesophageal Echocardiography in Pulmonary Embolism 169
17 Which Role Will Ultrasound Have with Regard to NMR Images? 179
18 Echo Phase Analysis for Noninvasive Localization of Accessory Pathways: an Adjunct to Endocardial Mapping in the Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome
Pt. 5 Current Application of TEE
19 Diseases of the Aorta - Critical Evaluation of the Role of Transesophageal Echocardiography 233
20 The Added Importance of Transesophageal Echocardiography in Imaging Regurgitation through Prosthetic Valves 245
21 The Role of Transesophageal Echocardiography in Adults with Congenital Heart Disease 253
22 The Role of CW Doppler in Transesophageal Echocardiography 271
Pt. 6 Future Application of TEE
23 Design Considerations for a Transesophageal Probe 279
24 Annular Array Multiplanar TEE Probe Allowing 3D Reconstruction of Cineloops of the Heart
25 The Multiplane Probe: Extracting the Full Information from the Transesophageal Window. The Aachen Experience 297
26 Multiplanar Transesophageal Echocardiography 307
Pt. 7 Intravascular and Intracardiac Ultrasound Imaging
27 Epicardial Coronary Arterial Imaging by Ultrasound: What Have We Learned? 313
28 Intravascular Ultrasound: Instrumentation, Image Interpretation, Promises and Pitfalls 325
29 New Directions in Intravascular Ultrasound 343
30 Coronary Intravascular Ultrasound: Rationale, Technology, and Initial Clinical Applications 355
31 The Use of Intracoronary Ultrasound to Assess Post-intervention Vessel Wall Responses 375
32 Quantitative Coronary Angiography plus Intravascular Ultrasound. Useful Additional Information 389
Pt. 8 New Technologies in Ultrasound
33 Ultrasound Angioplasty 399
34 In Vitro Analysis of a Model of Intracardiac Jet: a Laser Doppler Anemometric Study 411
35 Ultrasonic Characterization of Normal and Diseased Myocardium 425
36 The Clinical Impact of Computer Assisted Evaluation of Ultrasonic Tissue and Flow Data
37 Transesophageal Stress Echocardiography: the Combined Use of Transesophageal Atrial Pacing and Transesophageal Two-dimensional Echocardiography 453
38 Transesophageal Echo Computer Tomography: Computational Reconstruction of Any Desired View of the Beating Heart 461
39 Future Directions in Cardiovascular Ultrasound 469
Index 477