Cardiac Doppler Diagnosis, Volume II

Preface.- List of contributors.- 1. A history of echocardiography.- 2. Physics for ultrasonic diagnosis.- 3. Time interval histogram - An alternative in the detection of the maximum velocity in the heart.- 4. Velocity profiles in the aortic arch and Doppler determination of cardiac output: The normal and the pathological.- 5. Influence of the geometry of the ascending aorta upon the velocity profile.- 6. Convenient monitoring of cardiac output and global left ventricular function by transcutaneous aortovelography - an update.- 7. Exercise Doppler cardiography.- 8. Value of real-time two-dimensional Doppler flow imaging in cardiology.- 9. Development of real-time two-dimensional Doppler echocardiography and its clinical significance.- 10. Quantification of heart valve regurgitation by jet intrusion.- 11. Quantitative evaluation of aortic and mitral stenosis by continuous wave Doppler echocardiography.- 12. A new approach to noninvasive estimation of stenotic orifice area in semilunar valve stenosis by Doppler echocardiography.- 13. Evaluation of left ventricular diastolic filling by a pulse Doppler flowmeter in patients with coronary artery disease.- 14. Assessment of left ventricular end-diastolic pressure by Doppler velocity analysis across the mitral valve.- 15. Doppler echocardiography in congestive cardiomyopathy and heart failure.- 16. Effects of diltiazem on left ventricular diastolic behavior in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Education with exercise pulse Doppler echocardiography.- 17. The disturbance of left ventricular inflow by prolapsing and non- prolapsing left atrial myxoma: Estimation with pulse Doppler echocardiography.- 18. Evaluation the fetal circulation by combined pulsed Doppler and 2-D echocardiography.- 19. Application of multigate pulsed Doppler systems in congential heart disease.- 20. Assessment of systemic to pulmonary artery anastomoses by pulsed Doppler echocardiography.

`Each disease is efficiently reviewed and benefits from numerous figures... This book represents an excellent summary of advances in the field and will interest those actively involved in Doppler echocardiography.'
Acta Cardiologica, XLI (1986)
`Those who have realised the importance of the additional data which can be obtained by the complementary use of Doppler ulstrasound will find that this book is a convenient source of reference. Those who remain to be convinced will find that it puts the subject nicely into perspective.'
The British Journal of Radiology, 57 (1984)