Ultrasound in Coronary Artery Disease

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Evaluation of wall motion abnormalities and stress echocardiography

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Quantitative analysis of wall motion abnormalities

      • Antonio F. Amico, Sabino Iliceto, Vito Marangelli, Giovanni Piccinni, Francesco Tota, Lucia Sublimi Saponetti et al.

      Pages 3-13

   3. Assessment of wall motion by two-dimensional echocardiography

      • Joseph Kisslo, Khalid H. Sheikh

      Pages 15-20

   4. Real-time, three-dimensional echocardiography

      • Joseph Kisslo, Olaf Von Ramm

      Pages 21-29

   5. Exercise 2D echocardiography

      • Harvey Feigenbaum

      Pages 31-36

   6. Echocardiography during transesophageal atrial pacing

      • Sabino Iliceto, Antonio F. Amico, Francesco Tota, Giovanni Piccinni, Gaetano D’ambrosio, Giulia De Martino et al.

      Pages 37-48

   7. Detection and assessment of the severity of coronary artery disease by dipyridamole echocardiography test

      • Eugenio Picano, Fabio Lattanzi

      Pages 49-57

   8. The use of color Doppler ultrasound in exercise testing

      • John W. Cooper, Navin C. Nanda

      Pages 59-65

   9. Identification of intraoperative myocardial ischemia by transesophageal echocardiography

      • Marc E. R. M. Van Daele, George R. Sutherland, Jos R. T. C. Roelandt

      Pages 67-81

   10. Silent myocardial ischemia

       • Giuseppe Specchia, Colomba Falcone, Cristina Opasich, Maria Teresa La Rovere

       Pages 83-93

   11. Digital cine loop technology

       • Vito Marangelli, Gaetano D’ambrosio, Luigi Carella, Sabino Iliceto, Paolo Rizzon

       Pages 95-105

3. Evaluation of Myocardial Infarction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107

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   2. Two-dimensional echocardiography in the early management of acute myocardial infarction

      • Luciano Agati, Maria Penco, Carmine D. Vizza, Marco Renzi, Armando Dagianti

      Pages 109-119

   3. Left ventricular shape changes and modelling during acute myocardial infarction

      • Paolo Marino, Giorgio Golia, Piero Zardini

      Pages 121-131

   4. Two-dimensional echocardiographic quantification of myocardial infarct size

      • Natesa G. Pandian, Brenda S. Kusay

      Pages 133-141

   5. Detection and evaluation of left ventricular thrombosis in myocardial infarction

      • Antonio F. Amico, Sabino Iliceto, Cataldo Memmola, Giovanni Piccinni, Carlo Caiati, Cesare Pellegrini et al.

      Pages 143-149

   6. Two dimensional echocardiography and Doppler findings in right ventricular infarction

      • M. A. García-Fernandez, J. López-Sendón, M. Moreno Yangüela

      Pages 151-181

   7. The role of cardiac ultrasound in the diagnosis of the ‘surgical’ complications of acute myocardial infarction

      • John H. Smyllie, Patricia E. Assmann, George R. Sutherland, Alan G. Fraser, Jos R. T. C. Roelandt

      Pages 183-196

   8. Prognostic information obtained by 2D-echo- Doppler evaluation in acute myocardial infarction

      • Cees A. Visser, Ben J. Delemarre, Arend J. Dunning

      Pages 197-212

Today, coronary artery disease is one of the major causes of mortality and morbidity in the Western World. In the last decade many major diagnostic and therapeutic advances have been made, considerably furthering our potential in the management of coronary artery disease. At the same time, a new generation of cardiac tools has appeared. The field which has, perhaps, undergone the most important technological innovations is echocardiography. Nowadays, in fact, the world of ultrasounds ofters the cardiologist a wide range of technical applicatons: two-dimensional real-time imaging, intra-and extra-cardiac Doppler flow measurements, real-time imaging of cardiac struc­ ture and flow by 2D color Doppler, high resolution cardiac imaging by transesophageal echocardiography, tissue characterization by analysis of ultrasound wave characteristics, information on myocardial perfusion by con­ trast echocardiography, etc. Thanks to these technical improvements and to its consequent increased potentiality, echocardiography now plays an impor­ tant and irreplaceable role in the management of all cardiac diseases. In the field of coronary artery disease, echocardiography can reliably be used not only in the acute phases of the disease to derive useful functional and prog­ nostic information but also as a stress diagnostic procedure (thanks to new stress modalities and the continuing improvement of reviewing digital sys­ tems) for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease and for the evaluation of various therapeutic interventions. Furthermore, other promising applications of ultrasounds in this disease are currently being investigated: tissue charac­ coronary artery anatomy terization, myocardial contrast echocardiography, and flow evaluation by specially-designed ultrasoundcatheters.

• PTCA
• anatomy
• circulation
• coronary artery disease
• diagnosis
• echocardiography
• heart
• imaging
• ultrasound
• Ultrasonography

• Department of Cardiology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

  Sabino Iliceto, Paolo Rizzon

• Thorax Center, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

  Jos R. T. C. Roelandt

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