Modern echocardiographic methods

The materials in this publication have practical significance for the work of echocardiography specialists, clinical cardiologists, cardiology residents and postdoctoral fellows, and all physicians interested in this topic. The idea of the book is to popularize high-tech echocardiography, with the authors attempting to make high-end echocardiography more understandable, more accessible, and easier to perform. In order to practice the techniques described in detail in this book, it is necessary to have modern ultrasound equipment or, as a compromise option, medium-class, but necessarily improved with appropriate software.

Content
Glossary of used abbreviations 9
Terminological dictionary 13
The beginning 15
Structure of the myocardium.
Mechanics of cardiac contraction 19
Tissue Doppler echocardiography (TDE) 27
Tissue tracking (tissue tracking, myocardial tissue transfer) 45
Tissue Synchronized Imaging (TSI) 57
Two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography (2D STE) 61
Myocardial deformation, strain (strain imaging, Si) 69
Myocardial strain rate, strain rate (SR) 85
A study of strain and strain rate based on tissue Doppler echocardiography 89
Clinical application of LK strain and strain rate 95
Left ventricular rotation, twist and torsion (rotation, twist and torsion) 111
Left atrial mechanics 131
Three-dimensional echocardiography 157
Clinical application of three-dimensional echocardiography 183
Study of the synchrony of contraction of the heart 199
Conclusion 227
Review 229

• Contemporary
• echocardiographic methods