Challenging Cases in Echocardiography

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Every Friday morning for more than 10 years, world-renowned cardiology experts in the Echocardiography Laboratory at New York University Medical Center have continuously conferred over the weeks cases, creating a unique record of the challenges they faced and advances made in a constantly evolving field. Now from this book you can gain a front-row perspective of those conferences to confront their most instructive, perplexing, and even bizarre cases.
Each case begins with a short clinical presentation and pertinent echocardiographic images, followed by multiple-choice questions on diagnosis and management. With every question answered, you delve further into subsequent questions, discussions, and confirming illustrations.

In this book youll find—

92 of the most difficult and puzzling cases confronted by renowned experts
More than 400 echocardiographic images, including 250 in full color, accompany the text to bring each case to life
Each case stands on its own, allowing you to explore the book at your convenience cover-to-cover or in brief, random readings
FREE CD-ROM INCLUDED—features images from the text plus special video clips associated with many cases!/ULBR/>
This powerful and unusual book is designed to serve all who utilize echocardiography in daily practice and academia including anesthesiologists, internists, pediatricians, and intensivists at every stage of training and experience.

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Brand LWW

Reference 42251

EAN13 9780781750691

ISBN 9780781750691

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Publication date: 2005
Issue number: 1
Cover: hard cover
Pages count: 236
Dimensions (mm): 5484 x 7097
Weight (g): 473233

1. Intra-aortic Mass After Aortic Dissection Repair, 1
2. Change in Doppler Flow Pattern Following an Intervention, 3
3. Echo-free Space, 5
4. Myocardial Infarction With a New Murmur, 7
5. What Was the Procedure?, 9
6. A 27-Year-Old Patient With a Murmur, 11
7. Dyspnea on Exertion, 13
8. Progressive Dyspnea on Exertion, 15
9. Different Left Ventricular Gradients, 17
10. Concerned Mother, 19
11. Can You Interpret This Doppler Spectral Tracing?, 21
12. Weight Loss, 23
13. A Patient With an Asymptomatic Murmur, 26
14. Massive Cardiomegaly in an Asymptomatic Patient, 29
15. Shortness of Breath, 32
16. A 62-Year-Old Woman With Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation, 34
17. Shortness of Breath in a Patient With a Mitral Valve Prosthesis, 36
18. Transient Ischemic Attack Following Myocardial Infarction, 39
19. Heart Murmurs, 41
20. How Big Is the Left Atrium?, 43
21. Postoperative Transthoracic Echocardiogram, 46
22. A 48-Year-Old Man With Fever and Cough, 50
23. Shortness of Breath in a Previously Healthy Patient, 52
24. Attempt to Record Tricuspid Flow, 55
25. Whats Wrong With This Mitral Valve?, 57
26. Systolic Aortic Regurgitation, 59
27. Lobster Claw, 61
28. Chronic Shortness of Breath, 63
29. Pleural Effusion and Abnormal Echo, 65
30. Oxygen Desaturation, 67
31. Why Is This Young Woman Short of Breath?, 69
32. Chest Pain, 71
33. Echo After Invasive Procedure, 73
34. Cardiogenic Shock, 75
35. Postoperative Echo, 77
36. Rheumatic Heart Disease, 81
37. Abnormal Blood Count, 85
38. Name This Structure, 87
39. Heart Murmur in an Elderly Patient, 88
40. Dyspnea in a Patient With Lymphoma, 90
41. Hypertension, 92
42. Name This Syndrome, 94
43. New Murmur, 96
44. Murmur After Valve Replacement, 98
45. Murmur After Aortic Valve Replacement, 100
46. Unusual Mitral Valve, 102
47. Unique Doppler Pattern, 104
48. More Than Meets the Eye, 106
49. Name This Mass, 109
50. The History Is Key, 111
51. Transesophageal Echocardiogram (TEE) During Procedure, 113
52. Malfunctioning Prosthetic Valve?, 115
53. Elderly Patient With Syncope, 117
54. Chest Pain in a Patient With Aortic Plaque, 119
55. Syncope and Murmur, 121
56. Enlarged Heart, 123
57. What Is the Left Ventricle Pressure?, 125
58. Elderly Patient With Abdominal Pain, 127
59. Edema, 129
60. Elderly Woman With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, 131
61. Murmur, 133
62. Hole in the Right Atrium?, 135
63. Where Is the Infection?, 138
64. Prosthetic Valve Disfunction?, 140
65. How Thin Can It Get?, 142
66. An Old Starr-Edwards Valve, 144
67. What Did You Bring Back From Nepal?, 147
68. Complications of Thymoma, 149
69. Bad Echo From Our Hospital, 153
70. Should You Ligate the Appendage?, 156
71. Transient Ischemic Attack After Valve Replacement, 158
72. Endocarditis, 161
73. High-Velocity Mitral Regurgitation, 163
74. Can You Name This Vessel?, 164
75. How Is This Mitral Regurgitation Different?, 166
76. Swollen Leg, 168
77. Is This What They Taught You in Medical School?, 170
78. Was It a Successful Operation?, 173
79. The Patient Who Fell From Her Bed, 176
80. Fever of Undetermined Origin, 178
81. Ascites, 181
82. Right Atrial Mass After Surgery, 183
83. I Had Surgery, 185
84. Transient Ischemic Attack One Month After Surgery, 187
85. Twenty-Four-Pound Weight Gain, 189
86. A Tough Decision, 191
87. Endocarditis with Shock, 194
88. Dyspnea in Pregnancy, 196
89. Pulmonary Artery Compression, 200
90. Cold Leg, 203
91. Maladie de Roger?, 207
92. Name This Space, 213
  Index, 217