Main description:

The first Atlas aimed at presenting - with many images and a few lines of essential, explanatory text - methods, results, potentials, tips, traps and pitfalls of a new technique that represents a state-of-the-art approach to cardiac stress imaging testing - a market of 20 million tests per year in the US only. The CD-ROM accompanying the book presents some 20 cases with videoclips of dynamic imaging. The visual impact given by this multimedia product and the results achieved by most updated technology make this Atlas unique in the existing literature.

Contents:

Epicardial echocardiography.- Intracoronary ultrasound.- Transesophageal echo: The left main. The left anterior descending coronary artery. The left circumflex. The right coronary artery. The resting flow as a marker of stenosis. The coronary intima-media thickness. The coronary flow reserve. The pathophysiological window. Transthoracic echo: The left main. The left anterior descending coronary artery. The left circumflex. The right coronary artery. The resting flow as a marker of stenosis. The coronary intima-media thickness. The coronary flow reserve. The different stenosis. The pathophysiological window.- Coronary flow reserve: The technique. The traps. The pitfalls.- Dual imaging (wall motion and coronary flow reserve): The diagnostic value. Concordant positivity. Concordant negativity. Reduced coronary flow reserve and normal wall motion. Normal coronary flow reserve and abnormal wall motion.- Coronary flow reserve in athletes. Coronary flow reserve in hypertensives. Coronary flow reserve in diabetic patients. Coronary flow reserve in acute myocardial infarction. Coronary flow reserve in syndrome X. Coronary flow reserve in dilated cardiomyopathy. Coronary flow reserve in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Coronary flow reserve in Tako-Tsubo. Coronary flow reserve in angioplasty. Coronary flow reserve in heart transplant rejection. Coronary flow reserve in aortic stenosis. Coronary flow reserve in congenital heart disease.- 3D echo.