Echocardiography in Coronary Artery Disease

Abstract

1. Direct ultrasonic visualization of the coronary arteries.- 2. Regional and global left ventricular function analysis.- 3. Echocardiography during reversible ischemia in animal models.- 4. Echo-doppler cardiography during percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.- 5. Exercise echocardiography.- 6. Dipyridamole-echocardiography test.- 7. Echocardiography in experimental myocardial infarction in animals.- 8. Myocardial perfusion imaging by contrast two-dimensional echocardiography.- 9. Echocardiography in the differential diagnosis of patients with chest pain.- 10. Acute myocardial infarction in man.- 11. Evaluation of the effect of thrombolytic therapy on left and right ventricular function by two-dimensional echocardiography and cineventriculography.- 12. The mechanical complications of acute myocardial infarction.- 13. Left ventricular aneurysm and infarct expansion.- 14. Left ventricular thrombus: diagnosis, anticoagulation, and systemic embolization.- 15. Doppler echocardiography in coronary artery disease.- 16. Epicardial echocardiography: assessment of myocardial effects of ischemia and revascularization.- 17. Transesophageal echocardiography during abdominal aortic surgery.- 18. Ultrasonic tissue characterization methods in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease.- 19. Direct epicardial visualization of the coronary arteries.