The Adult with Congenital Heart Disease

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17 The Adult with Congenital Heart Disease ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC APPROACH Congenital Stenotic Lesions Congenital Regurgitant Lesions Abnormal Intracardiac Communications (Shunts) Abnormal Chamber and Great Vessel Connections CONGENITAL DEFECTS SEEN IN ADULTS…

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Advanced Echocardiographic Modalities

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4 Advanced Echocardiographic Modalities THREE-DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY Image Acquisition Image Display Examination Protocol Quantitation from 3D Images Clinical Utility Limitations MYOCARDIAL MECHANICS Tissue Doppler Strain and Strain Rate Speckle Tracking Strain…

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Intraoperative and Interventional Echocardiography

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18 Intraoperative and Interventional Echocardiography BASIC PRINCIPLES Indications Preoperative Diagnosis Hemodynamics Surgical Manipulation and Instrumentation Time Constraints ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC APPROACH Views Sequence Reporting and Image Storage LIMITATIONS AND TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS Image…

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Normal Anatomy and Flow Patterns on Transthoracic Echocardiography

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2 Normal Anatomy and Flow Patterns on Transthoracic Echocardiography BASIC IMAGING PRINCIPLES Tomographic Imaging Nomenclature of Standard Views Image Orientation Examination Technique Technical Quality Echocardiographic Image Interpretation TRANSTHORACIC TOMOGRAPHIC VIEWS…

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Methods

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3 Methods Retrograde Catheterization of the Common Femoral Artery Common Femoral Arterial Puncture No endovascular intervention is possible without an arterial or venous puncture. A puncture at the wrong site…

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Material

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2 Material Size Specifications for Cannulas, Guidewires, Catheters, and Sheaths The unit “gauge” for cannulas (referring to the outer diameter) corresponds to the number of processing steps required to produce…

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Abdomen

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4 Abdomen Renal Arteries The initial euphoria about interventional treatment of renal artery stenosis has given way to a more sober, even skeptical assessment. Good results are still being reported…

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General

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1 General Clinical Presentation of Peripheral Arterial Occlusive Disease This book describes treatment methods that are used in the vast majority of cases of patients with peripheral arterial occlusive disease….

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Characteristics of Cardiac Muscle Cells

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OBJECTIVES The student understands the ionic basis of the spontaneous electrical activity of cardiac muscle cells: Describes how membrane potentials are created across semipermeable membranes by transmembrane ion concentration differences….

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Overview of the Cardiovascular System

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OBJECTIVES The student understands the homeostatic role of the cardiovascular system, the basic principles of cardiovascular transport, and the basic structure and function of the components of the system: Defines…

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