Cardiac Doppler Diagnosis, Volume II [Paperback]

Preface.- List of contributors.- 1. A history of echocardiography.- 2. Physics for ultrasonic diagnosis.- 3. Time interval histogram - An alternative in the detection of the maximum velocity in the heart.- 4. Velocity profiles in the aortic arch and Doppler determination of cardiac output: The normal and the pathological.- 5. Influence of the geometry of the ascending aorta upon the velocity profile.- 6. Convenient monitoring of cardiac output and global left ventricular function by transcutaneous aortovelography - an update.- 7. Exercise Doppler cardiography.- 8. Value of real-time two-dimensional Doppler flow imaging in cardiology.- 9. Development of real-time two-dimensional Doppler echocardiography and its clinical significance.- 10. Quantification of heart valve regurgitation by jet intrusion.- 11. Quantitative evaluation of aortic and mitral stenosis by continuous wave Doppler echocardiography.- 12. A new approach to noninvasive estimation of stenotic orifice area in semilunar valve stenosis by Doppler echocardiography.- 13. Evaluation of left ventricular diastolic filling by a pulse Doppler flowmeter in patients with coronary artery disease.- 14. Assessment of left ventricular end-diastolic pressure by Doppler velocity analysis across the mitral valve.- 15. Doppler echocardiography in congestive cardiomyopathy and heart failure.- 16. Effects of diltiazem on left ventricular diastolic behavior in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Education with exercise pulse Doppler echocardiography.- 17. The disturbance of left ventricular inflow by prolapsing and non- prolapsing left atrial myxoma: Estimation with pulse Doppler echocardiography.- 18. Evaluation the fetal circulation by combined pulsed Doppler and 2-D echocardiography.- 19. Application of multigate pulsed Doppler systems in congential heart disease.- 20. Assessment of systemic to pulmonary artery anastomoses by pulsed Doppler echocardiography.`Each disease is efficientlylcà