Cardiovascular Imaging: A Handbook for Clinical Practice

Preface.

Foreword..

Section One: Valve Disease.

Chapter 1. Mitral stenosis (Kewal Krishnan Talwar, Manojkumar Rohit).

Chapter 2. Mitral regurgitation (Frank A. Flachskampf, Fausto Pinto).

Chapter 3. Aortic stenosis (Benjamin M. Schaefer, Catherine M. Otto).

Chapter 4. Aortic regurgitation (Helmut Baumagartner, Geralsd Maurer).

Chapter 5. Aortic Dissection (Debabrata Mukherjee, Kim A. Eagle).

Chapter 6. Evaluation of prosthetic heart valves (Darryl J. Burstow).

Chapter 7. Echocardiography in infective endocarditis (Eric Brochet, Agnes Cachier, Alec Vahanian).

Section Two: Coronary Artery Disease.

Chapter 8. Coronary imaging and screening (Koen Nieman, Pim J. de Feyter).

Chapter 9. Diagnosis and prognosis in patients and with chest pain (George A. Beller).

Chapter 10. Peripheral vascular disease (Serge Kownator).

Chapter 11. Risk stratification post-infarction (Frank M. Bengel).

Chapter 12. Risk stratification before non-cardiac surgery (Miklos D. Kertai, Don Poldermans).

Section Three: Heart Failure.

Chapter 13. Acute dyspnea (diastolic, systolic LV dysfunction, and pulmonary embolism) (Michael V. McConnell, Brett E. Fenster).

Chapter 14. Echocardiographic evaluation of patients with chronic dyspnea (Jong-Won Ha, Jae K. Oh).

Chapter 15. Resynchronization therapy (Ole-A. Breithardt).

Chapter 16. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (Petros Nihoyannopoulos).

Chapter 17. Viability in ischemic cardiomyopathy (Gabe B. Bleeker, Jeroen J. Bax, Ernst E. van der Wall).

Section Four: Uncommon Entities.

Chapter 18. Cardiac tumors (Joshua Lehrer-Graiwer, Charles B. Higgins).

Chapter 19. Evaluation of the transplanted heart (Oberdan Parodi, Maria Frigerio, Benedetta De Chiara).

Chapter 20. Unusual cardiomyopathies - role of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (Sanjay K. Prasad, Ravi G. Assomull, Dudley J. Pennell).

Chapter 21. Myocarditis and pericardia disease (Frank E. Rademakers).

Chapter 22. Congenital heart disease (Heynric B. Grotenhuis, Lucia J.M. Kroft, Eduard R. Holman, Jaap Ottenkamp, Albert de Roos).

Index.