Transesophageal Echocardiography Of The Tricuspid & Pulmonary Valves Includes Dvd-Rom

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Quick Overview Worldwide, valvular heart disease remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality. In India, 20 percent of all cardiac surgical cases are valvular in nature and Rheumatic Heart Disease is like an epidemic as far greater number of patients have disease that is managed medically. Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is an invaluable tool to diagnose valve lesions today preoperatively, perioperatively, and postoperatively and TEE for the right sided valves is an important armamentarium cardiac surgery field. Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) has brought together many medical disciplines and no other technology in recent times has evoked such an impact on clinicians and a change in their practice as much as TEE, particularly in the operating room and intensive care unit. The book has three sections one each on the detailed TEE of the TV and PV and a quick revision with MCQs as a short 3rd section of the book is a treatise to the reader in the form of multiple choice questions— without explanation. It will also help in preparing for the examination. Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is the perfect launch pad for better understanding especially now the 3D TEE for TV repair. Key Features • A comprehensive and an easy-to-read book on Transesophageal Echocardiography of the Tricuspid and Pulmonary Valves for the first time as a separate subject for a textbook . • Includes detailed TEE images and videos on recent upcoming topics like Anatomy of Tricuspid and Pulmonary Valves, TEE Views, Doppler Examinations, Tricuspid Regurgitation, Tricuspid Stenosis, Pulmonary Stenosis, Ebstein's Anomaly, and Pulmonary Artery Hypertension. • TEE images and videos on a DVD on the subject from all perspectives of understanding, teaching and taking examinations • Contains a section on MCQ's which will help master the subject • Useful for examiners and examinees especially the cardiac topics in all medical branches • Handful guide for intensivists, cardiac anesthetists, cardiologists, pediatrics, and surgeons- as it deals with an easy and basic approach to TEE for the right ventricle "the neglected heart". Target Audience Useful for Medical Students, Intensivists, Cardiac Anesthetists, Cardiologists, Pediatrics, and Surgeons.