Pocket Atlas of Echocardiography

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<p><strong>A highly successful introduction to echocardiography, now in a new and enhanced edition</strong></p><p>In diagnostic cardiology, the effectiveness and reliability of state-of-the-art echocardiography is unsurpassed but-as with all ultrasound examinations-the results are highly operator dependent. The second edition of Boehmeke's<cite>Pocket Atlas of Echocardiography</cite> is concise and portable, including all the information necessary to perform and read echocardiograms, and to navigate the bewildering number of imaging planes that transect the heart, with ease and confidence.</p><p><strong>Key features:</strong></p><ul><li>More than 400 illustrations, including sharp, clear echocardiograms, corresponding full-color schematic diagrams, and 3-D images. For this new edition, all images showing cardiac disease have been post-processed to make them clearer and in more accurate relation to the explanatory drawings</li><li>Detailed descriptions of all the acoustic windows and imaging planes for every echocardiogram</li><li>A practical overview of the typical patient examination, including imaging and patient positioning</li><li>All cardiac diseases are shown: valvular heart disease, coronary heart disease, cardiomyopathies, prosthetic valves, carditis, septal defects, hypertensive heart diseases, intracardiac masses; depicted in B-mode, M-mode, Doppler and color Doppler</li><li>New to the second edition: nearly 80 videos are now accessible on the Thieme MediaCenter showing normal views and many pathologies in video mode</li></ul>

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