Hemodynamics in Daily Practice

By Andries Erik Ed

1. From hemodynamic principles to clinical management.- 2. The clinical use and accuracy of echo-Doppler techniques for assessing severity of disease in valvular stenotic lesions.- 3. Proper timing of valve replacement in aortic stenosis.- 4. Optimal timing of surgery for volume overload hypertrophy in mitral and aortic regurgitation.- 5. Acute effects of myocardial ischemia on left ventricular function: How to differentiate myocardial infarction, stunned myocardium, and hibernating myocardium.- 6. Effects of coronary reperfusion on left ventricular function and survival: Some remaining problems.- 7. Effects of revascularization on left ventricular function in the stunned and hibernating myocardium.- 8. Heart failure: Newer concepts and origin of symptoms.- 9. Guidelines for the evaluation of treatment in congestive heart failure.- 10. Management of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.- 11. Antiarrhytmic therapy in heart failure.- 12. Non-invasive evaluation of cardiomyopathies.- 13. Can ultrasound reliably predict acute rejection in heart transplant recipients?.- 14. Cardiac transplantation.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792307259
• ISBN13: 9780792307259
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"