Evaluation of Cardiac Function by Echocardiography

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-IX

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2. History of Echocardiography

   • S. Effert

   Pages 1-12

3. Principles of Ultrasound

   • N. Bom

   Pages 13-21

4. Measurements of Cardiac Dimensions with Ultrasonic Crystals: New Aspects of Left Ventricular Diastolic Compliance

   • J. V. Tyberg, G. A. Misbach, S. A. Glantz

   Pages 22-27

5. Experimental Echocardiographic Studies of Myocardial Ischemia: Effect of Preload and Afterload Manipulations on Regional Wall Thickening and Perfusion

   • R. E. Kerber, J. B. Martins, M. L. Marcus

   Pages 28-35

6. Effects of Coronary Artery Occlusion and Reperfusion on the Time Course of Myocardial Contraction

   • J. Roelandt, F. J. ten Cate, P. D. Verdouw, A. H. Bom, J. A. Vogel

   Pages 36-43

7. Echocardiographic Evaluation of Left Ventricular Contractility

   • M. A. Quinones

   Pages 44-51

8. Echocardiographic Evaluation of Left Ventricular Performance by Standardized Afterload Stress

   • G. Autenrieth, C. Angermann, F. Goss, H.-D. Bolte

   Pages 52-56

9. Study of Incoordinate Left Ventricular Contraction by Echocardiography

   • D. G. Gibson

   Pages 57-64

10. Left Ventricular Function in Coronary Artery Disease During Atrial Pacing

    • R. Erbel, P. Schweizer

    Pages 65-70

11. Ventricular Wall Stress: Stimulus to Hypertrophy and Determinant of Ejection Performance

    • W. Grossman, S. Gunther, B. A. Carabello

    Pages 71-76

12. Left Ventricular Relaxation and Filling Pattern in Different Forms of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy

    • P. Hanrath

    Pages 77-83

13. Left Ventricular Relative Wall Thickness in Patients with Aortic Valve Disease

    • W. H. Gaasch

    Pages 84-88

14. Correlation of Heart Sounds and Valve Motions

    • G. J. Leech, A. Leatham

    Pages 89-96

15. Valve Motion and Contraction Pattern in Mitral Valve Prolapse

    • D. Mathey

    Pages 97-100

16. Clinical and Echocardiographic Findings After Surgical Treatment of Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy

    • E. Köhler, C. Neuhaus, J. Thurow, V. Bluschke, H. Kuhn, R. Körfer et al.

    Pages 101-109

17. Noninvasive Pulsed Doppler Diagnosis of Mitral Regurgitation Quantification of Mitral Stenosis

    • B. Diebold, P. Péronneau

    Pages 110-117

18. Left Ventricular Wall Motion During Pre-excitation and Normal Conduction in WPW-Syndrome

    • W. Daniel, H. Klein, P. R. Lichtlen

    Pages 118-126

19. Quantification of Ischemic Dysfunction by Two-dimensional Echocardiography

    • S. Meerbaum

    Pages 127-133

20. The Use of Two-dimensional Sector Echocardiography in the Diagnosis of Coronary Heart Disease

    • E. Grube

    Pages 134-141

Echocardiography has recently become one of' the most important techniques in clinical cardiology. The major advantage of this method is its noninvasive nature enabling us to apply it under a widespread variety of clinical conditions. In the late 1960s, when research and clinical application of echo cardiography were started, and during the first decade investigations were mainly focused on the morphology of the valves and the chambers of the heart. The introduction of two-dimensional echocardiography was a major breakthrough in visualizing different portions of the heart. How­ ever, the poor resolution of the first devices provided only little qualitative information. With the introduction of phased array 2-D-echo-devices yielding better results and the application of computer techniques for the processing of M-mode and two-dimensional echo cardiograms, a great amount of qualitative information has become available to describe not only the morphology, but also the dynamic function of the heart in a noninvasive manner. This volume summarizes the lectures held at the International Symposium on Echocardiography, Hamburg, September 1978, endeavoring to review the current state of knowledge with regard to echo cardiography in the experimental and clinical setting. We herewith thank all lecturers, who have contributed to the publication and the Pharma-Schwarz Company which enabled us to organize this meeting by a generous subsidy.

• Function
• cardiac function
• cardiology
• computer
• echocardiography
• heart
• Ultrasonography

• Universitätskrankenhaus Eppendorf, Hamburg 20, West-Germany

  Walter Bleifeld

• Abteilung Innere Medizin I der Medizinischen Fakultät, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, West-Germany

  Sven Effert

• II. Medizinische Klinik, Universitätskrankenhaus Eppendorf, Hamburg 20, West-Germany

  Peter Hanrath, Detlef G. Mathey

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