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Table of Contents
Contributors vii
Preface ix
Addendum to Chapter 1: updated indications for perioperative TEE
xi
Section 1 Fundamentals of transesophageal echocardiography
1 Introduction: indications, training, and accreditation in
transesophageal echocardiography Robert Feneck Marco Ranucci 3
2 Basic principles of physics in echocardiographic imaging and
Doppler techniques Joachim Erb 13
3 Safety and complications; probe maintenance Robert Feneck 34
4 The transesophageal echo examination Robert Feneck Luca Lorini
43
5 Normal valves Dominique Bettex Pierre-Guy Chassot 59
6 Aortic valve disease Justiaan Swanevelder 73
7 Mitral valve disease John Kneeshaw 108
8 The tricuspid valve, pulmonary valve, and pulmonary artery
Alfredo Pazzaglia Patrick Wouters 135
9 Left ventricular systolic and diastolic function Fabio Guarracino
145
10 The right ventricle Patrick Wouters 163
11 Cardiac masses and pericardial disease Robert Feneck 180
12 The thoracic aorta Robert Feneck Andrzej Wielogorski 193
13 Hemodynamic assessment Marco Ranucci Alfredo Pazzaglia 205
Section 2 Practical issues in transesophageal echocardiography
14 Ischemic heart disease 225
Conventional myocardial revascularization Patrick Wouters 225
Off-pump (OPCAB) cardiac surgery Sean Bennett 232
Left ventricular reconstruction Marco Ranucci Serenella
Castelvecchio Marisa Di Donato 236
15 Cardiomyopathies Alexander Ng Justiaan Swanevelder 247
16 Mitral valve repair Fabio Guarracino 268
17 Aortic valve surgery 275
Open aortic valve surgery Justiaan Swanevelder Alison Parnell 275
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation Joerg Ender Chirojit
Mukherjee 288
18 Infective endocarditis John Kneeshaw Robert Feneck 294
19 Prosthetic valves John B. Chambers 310
20 Adult congenital heart disease: TEE guidance of interventional
catheter-delivered devices Mario Carminati Diana Negura Luciane
Piazza Massimo Chessa Gianfranco Butera Robert Feneck 324
21 Critical and emergency care Luca Lorini Erik Sloth 339
22 Three-dimensional imaging Heinz D. Tschernich 348
23 Recent developments in Doppler imaging Heinz D. Tschernich
368
24 Transesophageal echocardiography reporting John Kneeshaw
Kamen Valchanov 397
Index 405