TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Chapter 11. Echocardiography in Cardiac Surgery
A1  - Enriquez-Sarano, Maurice
A1  - Nkomo, Vuyisile T.
A1  - Michelena, Hector I.
A2  - Cohn, Lawrence H.
PY  - 2012
T2  - Cardiac Surgery in the Adult, 4e
AB  - Echocardiography  has  become  the  major  imaging  and  diagnostic  modality  of  cardiac  disease,  so  all  cardiac  specialists,  cardiologists  or  surgeons,  need  to  understand  basic  principles,  approaches,  indications,  physiologic  determinants,  pitfalls,  and  expected  results  in  order  to  make  appropriate  interpretations.  Beyond  the  physical  principles  affecting  imaging  results,  Doppler-echocardiography  is,  like  all  complex  testing  modalities,  subject  to  operator  dependence  and  Bayesian  interpretation  of  results.  Hence,  quality  of  imaging  and  congruence  of  reported  results  should  be  critically  challenged  by  clinician  “consumers.”  The  present  summary  of  Doppler-echocardiographic  principles  provides  basic  to  advanced  knowledge  for  major  cardiac  conditions  mostly  acquired,  to  ensure  proper  functioning  of  the  team  echocardiographer-cardiac  surgeon.  
SN  - 
PB  - The McGraw-Hill Companies
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/19
UR  - accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=55913422
ER  -