Evaluation of Cardiac Function by Echocardiography

History of Echocardiography.- Principles of Ultrasound.- Measurements of Cardiac Dimensions with Ultrasonic Crystals: New Aspects of Left Ventricular Diastolic Compliance.- Experimental Echocardiographic Studies of Myocardial Ischemia: Effect of Preload and Afterload Manipulations on Regional Wall Thickening and Perfusion.- Effects of Coronary Artery Occlusion and Reperfusion on the Time Course of Myocardial Contraction.- Echocardiographic Evaluation of Left Ventricular Contractility.- Echocardiographic Evaluation of Left Ventricular Performance by Standardized Afterload Stress.- Study of Incoordinate Left Ventricular Contraction by Echocardiography.- Left Ventricular Function in Coronary Artery Disease During Atrial Pacing.- Ventricular Wall Stress: Stimulus to Hypertrophy and Determinant of Ejection Performance.- Left Ventricular Relaxation and Filling Pattern in Different Forms of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy.- Left Ventricular Relative Wall Thickness in Patients with Aortic Valve Disease.- Correlation of Heart Sounds and Valve Motions.- Valve Motion and Contraction Pattern in Mitral Valve Prolapse.- Clinical and Echocardiographic Findings After Surgical Treatment of Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy.- Noninvasive Pulsed Doppler Diagnosis of Mitral Regurgitation and Quantification of Mitral Stenosis.- Left Ventricular Wall Motion During Pre-excitation and Normal Conduction in WPW Syndrome.- Quantification of Ischemic Dysfunction by Two-dimensional Echocardiography.- The Use of Two-dimensional Sector Echocardiography in the Diagnosis of Coronary Heart Disease.- Left Ventricular Volume by Biplane Two-dimensional Echocardiography.- Real-Time Cross-Sectional Contrast Echocardiography.- Two-dimensional Echocardiography in Atrioventricular Valve Disease.- Two-dimensional Echocardiography in Semilunar Valve Disease.- Two-dimensional Echocardiography in Left Atrial Tumors.- Two-dimensional Echocardiography - an Alternative or Adjunct to Catheterization-Angiography?.