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- Editors:
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Sabino Iliceto
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Department of Cardiology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
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Paolo Rizzon
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Department of Cardiology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
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Jos R. T. C. Roelandt
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Thorax Center, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Table of contents (31 chapters)
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Evaluation of Myocardial Infarction
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- Alan G. Fraser, John H. Smyllie, Patricia E. Assmann, George R. Sutherland, Jos R. T. C. Roelandt
Pages 213-229
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- Sabino Iliceto, Antonio F. Amico, Carlo Caiati, Giovanni Piccinni, Francesco Tota, Vito Marangelli et al.
Pages 231-239
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- R. Erbel, U. Nixdorff, G. Görge, R. Brennecke, J. Meyer
Pages 241-254
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- N. Bom, H. Rijsterborgh, C. T. Lancée, Jos R. T. C. Roelandt
Pages 255-262
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Evaluation of coronary anatomy and flow
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Front Matter
Pages 263-263
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- Sabino Iliceto, Cataldo Memmola, Giulia De Martino, Vito Marangelli, Carlo Caiati, Paolo Rizzon
Pages 269-276
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- N. Bom, W. J. Gussenhoven, C. T. Lancée, C. J. Slager, P. W. Serruys, H. Ten Hoff et al.
Pages 277-284
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- Patrick W. Serruys, Felix Zijlstra, Hans H. C. Reiber, Kevin Beatt, G. J. Laarman, Jos R. T. C. Roelandt et al.
Pages 285-309
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- P. W. Serruys, B. J. Meester, P. J. De Feyter
Pages 311-321
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Myocardial perfusion
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Front Matter
Pages 323-323
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- Richard S. Meltzer, Antonio F. Amico, Shimon A. Reisner, Janine R. Shapiro
Pages 351-365
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- Antonio F. Amico, Sabino Iliceto, Richard S. Meltzer, Gaetano D’Ambrosio, Vito Marangelli, Cataldo Memmola et al.
Pages 367-375
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- Daniele Rovai, Massimo Lombardi, Steven E. Nissen, Mario Marzilli, Alessandro Distante, Luigi Taddei et al.
Pages 377-387
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- Antonio F. Amico, Sabino Iliceto, Lucia Sublimi Saponetti, Cataldo Memmola, Paolo Rizzon
Pages 389-396
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Back Matter
Pages 397-402
About this book
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.