by June A. Boon
In Manual of Veterinary Echocardiography, detailed guidelines are provided for the proper use and interpretation of diagnostic echocardiograms in all domestic species, making this handbook useful to all veterinary practitioners involved in this rapidly expanding area.
Contents
Physics of Ultrasound
- Basic physics
- Transducers and resolution
- Doppler physics
The Echocardiographic Examination
- Patient preparation
- Patient positioning
- Transducer selection
- Two-dimensional echocardiography
- M-mode echocardiography
- Spectral doppler
- color-flow doppler
Evaluation of Size, function, and Hemodynamics
- Evaluation of size and flow profiles
- Left ventricular function
- Hemodynamic information
- Exercises
Acquired Heart Disease
- Mitral insufficiency
- aortic insufficiency
- Tricuspid and pulmonic insufficiencies
- Endocarditis
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Dilated cardiomyopathy
- Restrictive cardiomyopathy
- Myocardial infarction
- Pulmonary hypertension
- systemic hypertension
- Pericardial effusions, pericardial disease, and cardiac masses
- Miscellaneous conditions affecting the heart
congenital Heart disease
- Obstructions to flow
- Cardiac shunts
- Miscellaneous congenital defects
Appendix
Index
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