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

This methodological guide is written by a cardiologist, Doctor of Medical Sciences, professor at 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 clearly as possible how the heart's function is analyzed, how the conclusion is formulated, what should be included in it, and how to interpret the obtained data. The book will help study the fundamentals of ultrasound diagnostics of heart pathology.

Inside:

- A brief essence of the ultrasound method and the main principles of the echocardiograph operation.

- Indications and frequency of echocardiography in normal conditions and various heart pathologies.

- Interpretation of conditions and pathologies (disruption of systolic and diastolic heart functions, cardiomyopathy, valvular pathologies, etc.).

- Types of ECG (stress-echo, transesophageal echo)

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