Echocardiography for Beginners. The Essence of Hemodynamic Disorders, Positions for Analysis, Determination of Severity of Defects

This methodological guide is written by a cardiologist, Doctor of Medical Sciences, professor of the Department of Cardiology, Functional and Ultrasound Diagnostics of Sechenov University, with the aim of familiarizing the reader with the basics of echocardiography, explaining as accessibly... as possible how the heart's work is analyzed, how the conclusion is formed, what it should indicate, and how to interpret the obtained data.

The book will help study the basics of ultrasound diagnostics of heart pathology.
Inside:
- A brief essence of the ultrasound method and the main principles of echocardiograph operation.
- Indications and frequency of echocardiography in normal and various heart pathologies.
- Interpretation of conditions and pathologies (disturbance of systolic and diastolic heart function, cardiomyopathies, valvular pathologies, etc.).
- Types of ECG (stress echocardiography, transesophageal echocardiography)

The guide includes more than 50 illustrations and images of real pathologies.