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Challenging Cases in Echocardiography Itzhak Kronzon

Challenging Cases in Echocardiography By Itzhak Kronzon

Challenging Cases in Echocardiography by Itzhak Kronzon

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Includes 92 of the most difficult and puzzling cases confronted by cardiology experts. This book features more than 400 echocardiographic images, including 250 in color. It is suitable for those who utilize echocardiography in daily practice and academia including anesthesiologists, internists, and pediatricians.

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Challenging Cases in Echocardiography by Itzhak Kronzon

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 week's 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 you'll 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!

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.

Table of Contents

  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. What's 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

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CIN0781750695G
9780781750691
0781750695
Challenging Cases in Echocardiography by Itzhak Kronzon
Itzhak Kronzon
Used - Good
Hardback
Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
20050323
236
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