Back to Book/course Clinical Echocardiography 0% Complete 0/0 Steps Introduction to echocardiography and ultrasound imaging 12 Chapters Physics of ultrasound The ultrasound transducer Technical aspects of the ultrasound image Two-dimensional (2D) echocardiography Optimization of the ultrasound image M-mode (motion mode) echocardiography Doppler effect and Doppler echocardiography Pulsed Wave Doppler Continuous Wave Doppler (CW Doppler) Color Doppler Tissue Doppler (Tissue Velocity Imaging) Artifacts in ultrasound imaging Principles of hemodynamics 5 Chapters Hemodynamic principles and calculations The Bernoulli principle and estimation of pressure gradients The Continuity Equation (The Principle of Continuity) Proximal Isovelocity Surface Area (PISA) Stroke Volume, VTI (Velocity Time Integral) & Cardiac Output The echocardiographic examination 3 Chapters Principles and Preparations for Echocardiographic Examinations Performing Echocardiographic Examinations Standard Transthoracic Echocardiogram: Complete Imaging Protocol Left ventricular systolic function and contractility 11 Chapters Left Ventricular Function Myocardial Mechanics: Structure and Function of Myocardial Fibers Ventricular Pressure-Volume Relationship: Preload, Afterload, Stroke Volume, Wall Stress & Frank-Starling's law Assessing left ventricular systolic function Left ventricular mass and volume (size) Ejection fraction (EF): Physiology, Measurement & Clinical Evaluation Fractional shortening for estimation of ejection fraction Strain, strain rate and speckle tracking: Myocardial deformation Left Ventricular Segments for Echocardiography and Cardiac Imaging The Coronary Arteries Regional Myocardial Contractile Function: Wall Motion Abnormalities Left ventricular diastolic function 3 Chapters Left ventricular diastolic function Relaxation of the left ventricle Assessment of diastolic function by echocardiography Cardiomyopathies 6 Chapters Heart failure: Causes, types, diagnosis, treatments & management Echocardiography in cardiomyopathies: an overview Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) & Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy (HOCM) Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM): Definition, Types, Diagnostics & Treatment Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy / Dysplasia (ARVC, ARVD) Tachycardia induced cardiomyopathy Valvular heart disease 8 Chapters Tricuspid stenosis Tricuspid regurgitation (TR/TI) Pulmonary regurgitation Pulmonary stenosis Mitral regurgitation Mitral valve stenosis Aortic regurgitation Aortic stenosis Miscellaneous conditions 5 Chapters Congenital heart disease & GUCH (Grown Up Congenital Heart disease) Cardiac thromboembolism: cardiac sources of embolism Endocarditis: definitions, causes, diagnosis, echocardiography & treatment Right ventricular strain: definition, causes, echocardiography Cardiac tumors Pericardial disease 2 Chapters Constrictive pericarditis: definition, causes, diagnosis & echocardiography Pericardial Effusion & Cardiac tamponade Clinical Echocardiography Left ventricular systolic function and contractility Section 4 of 9 In Progress ← Previous Next→ Left ventricular systolic function and contractility Section Content 0% Complete 0/11 Steps Left Ventricular Function Myocardial Mechanics: Structure and Function of Myocardial Fibers Ventricular Pressure-Volume Relationship: Preload, Afterload, Stroke Volume, Wall Stress & Frank-Starling’s law Assessing left ventricular systolic function Left ventricular mass and volume (size) Ejection fraction (EF): Physiology, Measurement & Clinical Evaluation Fractional shortening for estimation of ejection fraction Strain, strain rate and speckle tracking: Myocardial deformation Left Ventricular Segments for Echocardiography and Cardiac Imaging The Coronary Arteries Regional Myocardial Contractile Function: Wall Motion Abnormalities
