Main description:

3D echocardiography is an ultrasound technique allowing cardiographers to see three-dimensional images of the heart in real time, rather than the traditional two-dimensional images. This allows more accurate assessment and management of valvular and congenital heart disease.

This manual is a concise guide to 3D echocardiography. Beginning with an introduction to the technique, the following chapters discuss its use in the evaluation of different heart conditions.

With more than 160 colour images and illustrations, including 3D echo clippings presented in atlas format, this manual also includes a free DVD introducing 3D echocardiography and illustrating its techniques.

Key points

Concise guide to 3D echocardiography and its techniques
Discusses its use in evaluating different types of heart disease
Includes free DVD illustrating techniques
More than 160 colour images and illustrations
Features 3D echo clippings in atlas format

Contents:

Real-Time Three-Dimensional Echocardiography
How to Perform the 3D Echocardiography
Three-Dimensional Echocardiographic Evaluation of Patients with Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis
Three-Dimensional Echocardiography in Mitral Valve Regurgitation
Three-Dimensional Echocardiography in Aortic and Tricuspid Valve Disease
Three-Dimensional Echocardiography in Coronary Artery Disease
Three-Dimensional Echocardiography in Congenital Heart Defects
Transesophageal 3D Echocardiography for Device Closure of Atrial Septal Defects
TEE Guided Interventions and Advantages of 3D TEE
Anomalous Origin of Left Coronary Artery from Pulmonary Artery
Advantages of 3D Echo over 2D Echo in Assessment of LV Clot in Patients with Myocardial Infarction

Atlas of 3D Echocardiogram

Index

DVD Contents

Introduction to 3D Echocardiography
Introduction to 3D Echo Techniques
3D Echocardiography in Device Closure for (Aterial Septal Defects) ASD
3D Echo in Balloon Mitral Valvuloplasty