Echocardiography in Coronary Artery Disease

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Direct Ultrasonic Visualization of the Coronary Arteries

   • Harvey Feigenbaum

   Pages 1-12

3. Regional and Global Left Ventricular Function Analysis

   • Gerard Kan, Cees A. Visser

   Pages 13-32

4. Echocardiography During Reversible Ischemia in Animal Models

   • Natesa G. Pandian

   Pages 33-43

5. Echo-Doppler Cardiography during Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty

   • Cees A. Visser, Gerard Kan

   Pages 45-49

6. Exercise Echocardiography

   • Harvey Feigenbaum

   Pages 51-64

7. Dipyridamole-Echocardiography Test

   • Eugenio Picano

   Pages 65-75

8. Echocardiography in Experimental Myocardial Infarction in Animals

   • Richard S. Meltzer

   Pages 77-86

9. Myocardial Perfusion Imaging by Contrast Two-Dimensional Echocardiography

   • Folkert J. Ten Cate, Jan H. Cornel

   Pages 87-94

10. Echocardiography in the Differential Diagnosis of Patients with Chest Pain

    • Ioannis P. Panidis, Joel Morganroth

    Pages 95-106

11. Acute Myocardial Infarction in Man

    • Gerard Kan, Gees A. Visser

    Pages 107-121

12. Evaluation of the Effect of Thrombolytic Therapy on Left and Right Ventricular Function by Two-Dimensional Echocardiography and Cineventriculography

    • Raimund Erbel, Claus Steuernagel, Karl J. Henrichs, Michael Drexler, Gerhard Schreiner, Bernd Henkel et al.

    Pages 123-148

13. The Mechanical Complications of Acute Myocardial Infarction

    • Patricia E. Assmann, Jos R. T. C. Roelandt

    Pages 149-159

14. Left Ventricular Aneurysm and Infarct Expansion

    • Cees A. Visser, Jacques J. Koolen, Gerard Kan

    Pages 161-174

15. Left Ventricular Thrombus: Diagnosis, Anticoagulation, and Systemic Embolization

    • Richard S. Meltzer, Cees A. Visser

    Pages 175-190

16. Doppler Echocardiography in Coronary Artery Disease

    • Ben J. M. Delemarre, Cees A. Visser

    Pages 191-209

17. Epicardial Echocardiography: Assessment of Myocardial Effects of Ischemia and Revascularization

    • Nathaniel Reichek

    Pages 211-226

18. Transesophageal Echocardiography during Abdominal Aortic Surgery

    • Jacques J. Koolen, Cees A. Visser, Joseph A. Odoom, Jan G. Kromhout, Harry B. Van Wezel, Arend J. Dunning

    Pages 227-234

19. Ultrasonic Tissue Characterization Methods in the Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease

    • Tahor Tak, Joie P. Jones, Shahbudin H. Rahimtoola, Preminda P. A. N. Chandraratna

    Pages 235-254

20. Direct Epicardial Visualization of the Coronary Arteries

    • Gerard Kan, Cees A. Visser

    Pages 255-258

Some 25 years ago, the coronary care unit concentrated high technology and the acutely ill patients who might benefit from it in a single, recognizable space. Since then, that space and its technical equipment have changed, as has part of its population. Acute ischemia, silent and manifest, occurs within and outside of the coronary care unit as pain, arrhythmia, or pump failure. Its detection and treatment require the utilization of many diagnostic techniques and skills, not the least of which is two-dimensional Doppler echocardio­ graphy, which is gaining importance. Future developments, in tandem with computer technology, may add to this importance by enabling tissue identification, spatial representation, and Doppler flow mapping. This book describes the state of the art for the practicing clinician using Doppler echocardi?graphy at the bedside of patients with acute ischemic manifestations of coronary heart disease. The first requirement is to move from the echo laboratory to the coronary care unit, emergency department, operating room, or catheterization laboratory, using equipment suited for that purpose. The second, more trying imperative is to secure good cooper­ Ition between those treating the acutely ill patient and the investigator who interferes with his probes. If successful ceeding in both, rewarding results can be obtained, since echocardiography is a very sensitive and specific tool for recognizing and quantifying early ischemia.

• aneurysm
• computer
• coronary artery disease
• diagnosis
• differential diagnosis
• echocardiography
• heart

• Department of Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Cees A. Visser, Gerard Kan

• Department of Medicine and Radiology and the Center for Biomedical Ultrasound, Rochester, USA

  Richard S. Meltzer

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