Chapter 1 Cardiac investigations
Punit Ramrakha and
Jonathan Hill
- Exercise ECG 2
- Transthoracic echocardiography 4
- Transthoracic Doppler imaging 8
- The standard transthoracic echo 12
- Assessment of wall motion 16
- Assessment of LV systolic function 18
- Assessment of LV diastolic function 20
- ECHO in aortic stenosis (AS) 24
- Transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE) 26
- TOE for a cardiac source of embolism 30
- TOE in aortic dissection 32
- TOE in endocarditis 34
- TOE for mitral regurgitation (MR) 36
- Mitral valve prolapse 38
- TOE in chronic ischaemic MR 40
- TOE for mitral stenosis 40
- TOE for prosthetic valve dysfunction 40
- TOE assessment of mitral valve prosthesis 42
- TOE for aortic valve prosthesis 44
- Intraoperative TOE 46
- TOE for assessment of cardiac masses 48
- PET scanning 50
- Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) 52
- Metallic prostheses and CMR 54
