Ultrasound in Cardiology

Part 2 Fundamental principles of cardiac ultrasound diagnosis: fundamentals of echocardiography; conventional echocardiography; examination procedure, fundamental measurement and assessment tasks; conventional Doppler echocardiography and Doppler colour flow imaging; examination procedure and assessment tasks; computer-assisted cardiac ultrasound diagnosis; interventional echocardiography; cardiac ultrasound diagnosis in intensive care and emergency medicine; perspectives of therapeutic cardiac ultrasound. Part 2 Clinical applications of cardiac ultrasound diagnosis: congenital heart disease; myocardial disease; valvular heart disease; assessment of prosthetic valve function; infective endocarditis; HIV-related heart diseases; ischaemic heart disease; intra- and extra-cardiac masses; pericardial disease; ultrasound assessment of the transplanted heart; myocardial hypertrophy and hypertensive heart disease; diseases of the Aorta; cor pulmonale and pulmonary embolism; state-of-the-art - the heart surgeon's point of view.