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- Editors:
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Sabino Iliceto
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Department of Cardiology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
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Paolo Rizzon
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Department of Cardiology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
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Jos R. T. C. Roelandt
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Thorax Center, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Table of contents (31 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xiii
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Evaluation of wall motion abnormalities and stress echocardiography
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- Antonio F. Amico, Sabino Iliceto, Vito Marangelli, Giovanni Piccinni, Francesco Tota, Lucia Sublimi Saponetti et al.
Pages 3-13
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- Joseph Kisslo, Khalid H. Sheikh
Pages 15-20
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- Joseph Kisslo, Olaf Von Ramm
Pages 21-29
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- Sabino Iliceto, Antonio F. Amico, Francesco Tota, Giovanni Piccinni, Gaetano D’ambrosio, Giulia De Martino et al.
Pages 37-48
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- Eugenio Picano, Fabio Lattanzi
Pages 49-57
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- John W. Cooper, Navin C. Nanda
Pages 59-65
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- Marc E. R. M. Van Daele, George R. Sutherland, Jos R. T. C. Roelandt
Pages 67-81
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- Giuseppe Specchia, Colomba Falcone, Cristina Opasich, Maria Teresa La Rovere
Pages 83-93
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- Vito Marangelli, Gaetano D’ambrosio, Luigi Carella, Sabino Iliceto, Paolo Rizzon
Pages 95-105
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Evaluation of Myocardial Infarction
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Front Matter
Pages 107-107
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- Luciano Agati, Maria Penco, Carmine D. Vizza, Marco Renzi, Armando Dagianti
Pages 109-119
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- Paolo Marino, Giorgio Golia, Piero Zardini
Pages 121-131
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- Natesa G. Pandian, Brenda S. Kusay
Pages 133-141
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- Antonio F. Amico, Sabino Iliceto, Cataldo Memmola, Giovanni Piccinni, Carlo Caiati, Cesare Pellegrini et al.
Pages 143-149
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- M. A. GarcÃa-Fernandez, J. López-Sendón, M. Moreno Yangüela
Pages 151-181
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- John H. Smyllie, Patricia E. Assmann, George R. Sutherland, Alan G. Fraser, Jos R. T. C. Roelandt
Pages 183-196
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- Cees A. Visser, Ben J. Delemarre, Arend J. Dunning
Pages 197-212
About this book
Today, coronary artery disease is one of the major causes of mortality and morbidity in the Western World. In the last decade many major diagnostic and therapeutic advances have been made, considerably furthering our potential in the management of coronary artery disease. At the same time, a new generation of cardiac tools has appeared. The field which has, perhaps, undergone the most important technological innovations is echocardiography. Nowadays, in fact, the world of ultrasounds ofters the cardiologist a wide range of technical applicatons: two-dimensional real-time imaging, intra-and extra-cardiac Doppler flow measurements, real-time imaging of cardiac struc ture and flow by 2D color Doppler, high resolution cardiac imaging by transesophageal echocardiography, tissue characterization by analysis of ultrasound wave characteristics, information on myocardial perfusion by con trast echocardiography, etc. Thanks to these technical improvements and to its consequent increased potentiality, echocardiography now plays an impor tant and irreplaceable role in the management of all cardiac diseases. In the field of coronary artery disease, echocardiography can reliably be used not only in the acute phases of the disease to derive useful functional and prog nostic information but also as a stress diagnostic procedure (thanks to new stress modalities and the continuing improvement of reviewing digital sys tems) for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease and for the evaluation of various therapeutic interventions. Furthermore, other promising applications of ultrasounds in this disease are currently being investigated: tissue charac coronary artery anatomy terization, myocardial contrast echocardiography, and flow evaluation by specially-designed ultrasoundcatheters.
