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ECHO MADE EASY
Echo Made Easy
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Second Edition

By
Sam Kaddoura, BSc, BM, BCh, DIC, PhD, FRCP, FESC, FACC, Consultant Cardiologist, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital and Royal Brompton Hospital; Honorary Senior Lecturer, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UK

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Description
This best-selling and highly-praised book provides a practical and clinically useful introduction to echo. The author explains the echo techniques available, what an echo can and cannot give, and, importantly, puts echo into a clinical perspective. The sections are ordered with the techniques most often used to diagnose a particular clinical problem explained first. The final chapter deals with special clinical situations.

Audience
Medical students
Junior doctors
Cardiac technicians

Contents
1. What is echo?
2. Valves
3. Doppler – velocities and pressures
4. Heart failure, myocardium and pericardium
5. Transoesophageal and stress echo and other echo techniques
6. Cardiac masses, infection and congenital abnormalities
7. Special situations and conditions

Bibliographic details
Paperback, 248 pages, publication date: JAN-2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-443-10363-6
ISBN-10: 0-443-10363-1
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE


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