Challenging Cases in Echocardiography contains a unique record of the challenges faced, and advances made at the Echocardiography Laboratory at New York University Medical Center.

Each case begins with a short clinical presentation and pertinent echocardiographic images, followed by multiple-choice questions on diagnosis and management. With every question answered, you delve further into subsequent questions, discussions, and confirming illustrations.

In this book you'll find—

• 92 of the most difficult and puzzling cases confronted by renowned experts
• More than 400 echocardiographic images, including 250 in full color, accompany the text to bring each case to life
• Each case stands on its own, allowing you to explore the book at your convenience cover-to-cover or in brief, random readings
• FREE CD-ROM INCLUDED—features images from the text plus special video clips associated with many cases!

This powerful and unusual book is designed to serve all who utilize echocardiography in daily practice.

Contents

1. Intra-aortic Mass After Aortic Dissection Repair
2. Change in Doppler Flow Pattern Following an Intervention
3. Echo-free Space
4. Myocardial Infarction With a New Murmur
5. What Was the Procedure?
6. A 27-Year-Old Patient With a Murmur
7. Dyspnea on Exertion
8. Progressive Dyspnea on Exertion
9. Different Left Ventricular Gradients
10. Concerned Mother
11. Can You Interpret This Doppler Spectral Tracing?
12. Weight Loss
13. A Patient With an Asymptomatic Murmur
14. Massive Cardiomegaly in an Asymptomatic Patient
15. Shortness of Breath
16. A 62-Year-Old Woman With Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation
17. Shortness of Breath in a Patient With a Mitral Valve Prosthesis
18. Transient Ischemic Attack Following Myocardial Infarction
19. Heart Murmurs
20. How Big Is the Left Atrium?
21. Postoperative Transthoracic Echocardiogram
22. A 48-Year-Old Man With Fever and Cough
23. Shortness of Breath in a Previously Healthy Patient
24. Attempt to Record Tricuspid Flow
25. What's Wrong With This Mitral Valve?
26. Systolic Aortic Regurgitation
27. Lobster Claw
28. Chronic Shortness of Breath
29. Pleural Effusion and Abnormal Echo
30. Oxygen Desaturation
31. Why Is This Young Woman Short of Breath?
32. Chest Pain
33. Echo After Invasive Procedure
34. Cardiogenic Shock
35. Postoperative Echo
36. Rheumatic Heart Disease
37. Abnormal Blood Count
38. Name This Structure
39. Heart Murmur in an Elderly Patient
40. Dyspnea in a Patient With Lymphoma
41. Hypertension
42. Name This Syndrome
43. New Murmur
44. Murmur After Valve Replacement
45. Murmur After Aortic Valve Replacement
46. Unusual Mitral Valve
47. Unique Doppler Pattern
48. More Than Meets the Eye
49. Name This Mass
50. The History Is Key
51. Transesophageal Echocardiogram (TEE) During Procedure
52. Malfunctioning Prosthetic Valve?
53. Elderly Patient With Syncope
54. Chest Pain in a Patient With Aortic Plaque
55. Syncope and Murmur
56. Enlarged Heart
57. What Is the Left Ventricle Pressure?
58. Elderly Patient With Abdominal Pain
59. Edema
60. Elderly Woman With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
61. Murmur
62. Hole in the Right Atrium?
63. Where Is the Infection?
64. Prosthetic Valve Disfunction?
65. How Thin Can It Get?
66. An Old Starr-Edwards Valve
67. What Did You Bring Back From Nepal?
68. Complications of Thymoma
69. Bad Echo From Our Hospital
70. Should You Ligate the Appendage?
71. Transient Ischemic Attack After Valve Replacement
72. Endocarditis
73. High-Velocity Mitral Regurgitation
74. Can You Name This Vessel?
75. How Is This Mitral Regurgitation Different?
76. Swollen Leg
77. Is This What They Taught You in Medical School?
78. Was It a Successful Operation?
79. The Patient Who Fell From Her Bed
80. Fever of Undetermined Origin
81. Ascites
82. Right Atrial Mass After Surgery
83. I Had Surgery
84. Transient Ischemic Attack One Month After Surgery
85. Twenty-Four-Pound Weight Gain
86. A Tough Decision
87. Endocarditis with Shock
88. Dyspnea in Pregnancy
89. Pulmonary Artery Compression
90. Cold Leg,
91. Maladie de Roger?
92. Name This Space

Index

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