Easy-to-use, handheld echocardiographic equipment has recently become a reliable, faster, lower-cost initial assessment option for cardiologists and other healthcare providers. Point-of-Care Echocardiography: A Case-Based Visual Guide clearly explains and demonstrates how to incorporate and effectively employ this new technology in your practice. Real-life images from actual outpatient consultations and in-patient evaluations provide step-by-step guidance on using handheld echo to arrive at a definitive diagnosis and/or to exclude other possible diagnoses.

SECTION 1 Cardiovascular Anatomy and Physiology Review 1

1 Cardiac Anatomy 2

2 Cardiac Vascular Connections, Anatomy, and Ultrasound Imaging 5

3 Cardiac Physiology 17

SECTION 2 Handheld Echocardiography Devices and Cardiac Imaging

Techniques 21

4 Handheld Echocardiographic Devices and Imaging Features 22

5 How to Perform Ultrasound of the Heart and its Arterial

and Venous Connections 25

6 Normal Echocardiogram 33

SECTION 3 Cardiovascular Case Studies Diagnosed With Handheld

Echocardiography 43

7 Case 1—A 70-Year-Old Man With Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation 44

Case 2—Tight Wedding Ring on a 68-Year-Old Man With Dilated

Cardiomyopathy and New Onset Atrial Fibrillation 50

Case 3—Resuscitated Cardiac Arrest After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG)

Surgery and Mitral Valve Repair for Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation (MR) 56

8 Case 1—A 72-Year-Old Man With Dysphagia, Dyspnea, and Ankle Edema 60

Case 2—A 78-Year-Old Man With Dysphagia and Known Coronary Artery

Disease 66

9 Case 1—A 75-Year-Old Woman With Known Advanced Cardiomyopathy

Presents to the Emergency Department With Recurrent Dyspnea 70

Case 2—78-Year-Old Man With Lower Extremity Edema, Dyspnea, and Weight

Gain During a Long Cruise 76

Case 3—A 53-Year-Old Female With New Onset Heart Failure 83

Case 4—A 56 year old woman with dyspnea and chest pain 90

10 Case 1—62-Year-Old Man for General Medical Evaluation 97

Case 2—An 81-Year-Old Man Undergoing Workup for Transcutaneous Aortic

Valve Replacement (TAVR) for Severe Aortic Stenosis Presents With Severe

Dyspnea 104

Case 3—Incidental Finding on CT Chest Screening for Lung Cancer in a

56-Year-Old Woman 110

11 Case 1—An 85-Year-Old Man With Remote Aortic Valve Replacement

Presents With Dyspnea 117

Case 2—A 65-Year-Old Man With Dyspnea Status Post TAVR and TMVR 124

Case 3—An 86-Year-Old Man Post TAVR Presents With Dyspnea 131

12 Case 1—A 72-Year-Old Man With Fatigue After Mitral Valve Replacement 137

13 Case 1—Cardiology Consult Before Noncardiac Surgery for Brain Tumor 144

Index 150

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