Practical cardiovascular hemodynamics : with self-assessment problems [E-Book]

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from home page (viewed on Jan. 2, 2014).

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Section A. Basic and Advanced Hemodynamics Elias B. Hanna; I Pressure tracings; I.1 Right Atrial Pressure Tracing; I.2 Right Ventricular Pressure Tracing-Characteristics of RV Failure; I.3 Pulmonary Artery Pressure Tracing; I.4 Pulmonary Capillary Wedge Pressure; I.5. Left Ventricular Pressure Tracing and Interpretation of LVEDP-Left Ventricular Failure; I.6 Aortic Pressure, Peripheral Arterial Pressure, and Description of Damping and Ventricularization of Aortic Pressure upon Coronary Engagement

I.7 Pressure Damping and Other Sources of Pressure ArtifactI.8 Establish the Zero Reference; I.9 Effect of Respiration on Intracardiac Pressures and Concept of Transmural Pressure; II Measurement of Cardiac output and Vascular Resistances; III Evaluation of Left-to-Right and Right-to-Left Shunts and Calculation of Shunt Ratio; III.1 Shunt Evaluation; III.2 Shunt Ration Calculation in case of O2 Therapy; III.3 Shunt and Pulmonary Hypertension; III.4 Examples of Oximetry Runs; III.5 Shunt Case with Pulmonary Hypertension

IV Overview of the Steps Performed During a Standard Right and Left Heart CatheterizationV Left Ventricular Failure; V.1 Overview; V.2 Heart Failure with Normal LVEDP and Normal PCWP at Rest-Value of Stress Testing; V.3 Assessment of LV Contractility; V.4 Echocardiographic Determination of LV Filling Pressures; VI Valvular disorders: Calculation of Valvular Area; VI.1 Overview; VI.2 Calculation of Valvular Area in Atrial Fibrillation; VI.3 Calculation of Valvular Area in Case of Coexisting Regurgitation of the Same Valve; VII Valvular Disorders: Aortic Stenosis

VII.1 Types of Transaortic Valve GradientsVII.2 Morphology of the Aortic Pressure Tracing in Severe as; VII.3 How to Obtain the Transaortic Pressure Gradient; VII.4 Case of AF; VII.5. Case of low-gradient AS with AVA �1 cm2 and low EF <40%; VII.6. Case of low-gradient AS with AVA �1 cm2 but normal EF; VII.7. Pressure recovery phenomenon; VII.8. LVOT obstruction and LV flow acceleration in aortic stenosis following aortic valve replacement; VIII Valvular Disorders: Mitral Stenosis; VIII.1. LA pressure waveform and transmitral pressuregradient in MS

VIII.2. How to obtain transmitral valve gradientVIII.3. Note on the echocardiographic determination of MS severity; VIII.4. Pulmonary hypertension in MS; VIII.5. Case of AF; VIII.6. Stress testing for MS; VIII.7. Assessment of the results of mitral balloon valvuloplasty; IX Other valvular disorders: Mitral regurgitation,aortic insufficiency,tricuspid regurgitation,pulmonic stenosis, and prosthetic valves; IX.1. Mitral regurgitation; IX.2. Aortic insufficiency; IX.3. Tricuspid regurgitation; IX.4. Pulmonic stenosis; IX.5. Tricuspid stenosis; IX.6. Pulmonic insufficiency

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