The Practice of M-Mode and Two-Dimensional Echocardiography

I. Instrumentation and Examination Techniques of Two-Dimensional Echocardiography.- 1. Performance characteristics of two-dimensional cardiac scanners..- 2. Comprehensive M-mode and two-dimensional echocardiographic examination: anatomy, technique, image orientation and specific clinical application..- II. Problems Related to Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of M-Mode, Two-Dimensional and Doppler Echocardiography.- 3. Limitations and pitfalls of M-mode and two-dimensional echocardiography..- 4. Quantitative aspects of measurement error in echocardiography..- 5. Doppler-echocardiography; its advantages and limitations in adult cardiology..- III. Clinical Usefulness of Transesophageal and Contrast Echocardiography.- 6. Transesophageal (M-mode and two-dimensional) echocardiography..- 7. Contrast echocardiography..- 8. Contrast echocardiography in the neonate..- IV. Application and Validity of M-Mode and Two-Dimensional Echocardiography in Common Cardiac Diseases.- 9. New aspects of eehocardiography for the diagnosis and treatment of pericardial disease..- 10. Eehocardiography of the cadiomyopathies: congestive, hypertrophic and restrictive types..- 11. Eehocardiography in vegetative endocarditis..- 12. Eehocardiography of intra-cardiac masses: tumors and thrombi..- 13. Eehocardiography of the mitral valve: accuracy of criteria for clinical decision making in daily practice..- 14. Two-dimensional eehocardiography of the aorta and aortic valve. Is quantitation possible?.- 15. Two-dimensional eehocardiography of ventricular septal defects..- V. Assessment of the Left Ventricle by M-Mode and Two-Dimensional Echocardiography.- 16. Quantification of left ventricular function: how useful is it for clinical decision making..- 17. Computer-aided analysis of M-mode echocardiograms: practical and clinical relevance of results..- 18. A critical look at quantification of the left ventricle from M-mode and two-dimensional echocardiography..- VI. Application of M-Mode and Two-Dimensional Echocardiography in Coronary Artery Disease.- 19. The value of echocardiography in the coronary care unit: left ventricular wall motion studies in the assessment of the patient with acute myocardial infarction..- 20. Echocardiographic diagnosis of complications of myocardial infarction..- 21. Usefulness of echocardiography for the assessment of interventions in patients with acute and chronic coronary artery disease (thrombolysis, vasodilatory therapy etc.)..