Cardiovascular Imaging A handbook for clinical practice - Part 6 doc

... diagnoses Acute dyspnea 159 Figure 13.4 Apical three-chamber transthoracic echocardiogram in an 83-year-old man with acute pulmonary edema 2 days after acute anterior myocardial infarction demonstrating ... interventricular Chronic dyspnea 169 BCI14 6/ 15/05 8:37 PM Page 169 Figure 13 .6 Apical four-chamber transthoracic echocardiogram in 79-year-old woman with acute dyspnea 10 days after...

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... pharmacologic myocardial perfusion imaging that are associated with high-risk CAD and an increased probability of future cardiac events. A large amount of data published in the literature has ... rest imaging. 4 In this study, attenuation-corrected myocardial perfusion imaging coupled with ECG gated data were compared with perfusion imaging gated data alone and myocardial perfusio...

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... index. ISBN-13: 97 8-1 -4 05 1-3 13 1-5 (alk. paper) ISBN-10: 1-4 05 1-3 13 1-4 (alk. paper) 1. Heart — Imaging — Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Cardiovascular system — Imaging — Handbooks, manuals, etc. [DNLM: ... published 2005 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cardiovascular imaging : a handbook for clinical practice / edited by Jeroen J. Bax...

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... 3 CSA LVOT VTI LVOT VTI As-Jet Stenotic valve AVA Figure 3.7 Schematic diagram of the continuity equation to calculate the aortic valve area. AVA, aortic valve area; CSA, cross-sectional area; LVOT, left ventricular ... LVOT diameter measured from a parasternal long axis view for calculation of a circular cross-sectional area. 2 LVOT velocity measured with pulsed wave Doppler from an ap...

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... as- cending aorta. Echocardiography Echocardiography (TTE and TEE) is a non-invasive and readily available modality for evaluation of aortic dissection. TTE can evaluate the aortic root and arch, but ... patients. 1 Case Presentation A 61 -year-old man was admitted because of acute pulmonary edema and aortic regurgitation. He had no history of valvular or cardiac disease but he did ha...

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... perfusion imaging for detection of subendocardial myocardial infarcts: an imaging study. Lancet 2003; 361 :374–9. 6Brown KA. Prognostic value of thallium-201 myocardial perfusion imaging: a diag- nostic ... seg- 120 Chapter 10 Table 10.1 Imaging techniques: advantages and limitations. Technique Advantage Limitation Conventional angiography Gold standard Invasive Risk Cost MRA Non-i...

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... hemodynamics. Conventional echocardiographic parameters Table 15.1 provides an overview on the available conventional parameters that are valuable for the assessment of dyssynchrony before CRT implantation and for ... resynchronization for severe heart failure: evaluation by tissue Doppler imaging. Circulation 2002;1 06: 2078–84. 28 Bax JJ, Ansalone G, Breithardt OA, et al. Echocardio...

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... provides improved imaging of smaller masses, particularly in the atria, atrial appendages, or associated with valvular structures. Contrast-enhanced echocardiography improves visualization of intracardiac masses ... symptoms. Lipomas are typically located in the RA or atrial septum. They arise from the en- docardial surface and have a broad base of attachment. Lipomas have the same signal...

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... Diagnostic and prognostic value of serial dobuta- mine stress echocardiography for non-invasive assessment of cardiac allograft vascu- lopathy: comparison with coronary angiography and intravascular ... PM Page 244 CHAPTER 19 Evaluation of the transplanted heart Oberdan Parodi, Maria Frigerio, and Benedetta De Chiara Introduction Cardiac transplantation is an established treatment for ad...

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... deformations may also be present. Catheter-driven angiography has clear advantages in imaging quality, but radiation burden and invasiveness are important drawbacks. Therefore, magnetic resonance imaging ... can 1 2 1 2 a b Figure 22.1 Recoarctation of the aorta after repair in a 42-year-old man with a right arcus. (a) One slice of a stack oblique sagittal black-blood spin-echo ma...

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