Echocardiographic Assessment of Valvular Heart Disease
SECTION 1 Asymptomatic Severe Aortic Stenosis David A. Orsinelli, MD, FACC, FASE CLINICAL CASE PRESENTATION The patient is an 82-year-old man with a longstanding history of a heart murmur. He…
Echocardiographic Assessment of the Patient With Known or Suspected Congestive Heart Failure
SECTION 1 Echocardiography in the Evaluation of the Dyspneic Patient Gerard P. Aurigemma, MD, FAHA, FASE, FACC CLINICAL CASE PRESENTATION A 71-year-old woman, who was brought by her family to…
Echocardiography in the Evaluation and Management of the Patient with Known or Suspected Coronary Artery Disease
Negative Stress ECHO CLINICAL CASE PRESENTATION A 45 year old man with hypertension that has not been well controlled presents for evaluation. He was seen in the office and mentioned…
An Atlas to Explore the Current Use of Echocardiography in Clinical Medicine
FIGURE 1-1-1 “Tools” available in a modern echocardiography laboratory. M-MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY M-mode echocardiography, first displayed on strip chart recordings in the early 1970s, provides a one-dimensional, “ice-pick” view of the…
