Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine

One / Doppler Assessment of Valve and LV Function I.- 1. Clinical Application of the Analysis of Diastolic Mitral Inflow: Differentiation of Restriction and Constriction.- 2. Noninvasive Assessment of Left Ventricular Systolic and Diastolic Function Using Doppler Mitral Regurgitant Velocity Profile.- 3. What does Pulmonary Vein Flow Analysis Add to the Assessment of Left Ventricular Hemodynamics?.- Two / Doppler Assessment of Valve and LV Function II.- 4. Doppler Echocardiographic Assessment of Mitral Valve Stenosis Before and After Balloon Catheter Valvuloplasty.- 5. Dynamics of the Intraventricular Diastolic Flow Velocity Profile in Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy.- 6. Is Ultrasound of Clinical Value in the Management of Heart Transplant Patients?.- 7. Quantification of Mitral Regurgitation Using Amplitude-Weighted Mean Velocity.- 8. Contrast Color Doppler-Echocardiography. Improved Diagnosis of Mitral and Tricuspid Regurgitation.- Three / New Clinical Frontiers of Echocardiography I.- 9. Three-dimensional Reconstruction of the Mitral Valve.- 10. Determination of Left Ventricular Volume of Means of a Transpulmonary Echocardiographic Contrast Agent.- 11. Preliminary Clinical Experience with Intracoronary AlbunexR: a Standardized Echocontrast Agent.- 12. Influence of ACE-inhibition on Diastolic LV-function in Patients with CHD.- 13. Dobutamine or Dipyridamole Echocardiography: Which Test for Which Patient?.- Four / New Clinical Frontiers of Echocardiography II.- 14. Identification of Viable Myocardium: Dobutamine Echocardiography Versus Positron Emission Tomography.- 15. Ultrasonic Backscatter Imaging for Characterization of Cardiac Structure and Function.- 16. Role of Transesophageal Echocardiography in Pulmonary Embolism.- 17. Which Role Will Ultrasound Have with Regard to NMR Images?.- 18. Echo Phase Analysis for Noninvasive Localization of Accessory Pathways: an Adjunct to Endocardial Mapping in the Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome.- Five / Current Application of TEE.- 19. Diseases of the Aorta - Critical Evaluation of the Role of Transesophageal Echocardiography.- 20. The Added Importance of Transesophageal Echocardiography in Imaging Regurgitation through Prosthetic Valves.- 21. The Role of Transesophageal Echocardiography in Adults with Congenital Heart Disease.- 22. The Role of CW Doppler in Transesophageal Echocardiography.- Six / Future Application of TEE.- 23. Design Considerations for a Transesophageal Probe.- 24. Annular Array Multiplanar TEE Probe Allowing 3D Reconstruction of Cineloops of the Heart.- 25. The Multiplane Probe: Extracting the Full Information from the Transesophageal Window. The Aachen Experience.- 26. Multiplanar Transesophageal Echocardiography.- Seven / Intravascular and Intracardiac Ultrasound Imaging.- 27. Epicardial Coronary Arterial Imaging by Ultrasound: What Have We Learned?.- 28. Intravascular Ultrasound: Instrumentation, Image Interpretation, Promises and Pitfalls.- 29. New Directions in Intravascular Ultrasound.- 30. Coronary Intravascular Ultrasound: Rationale, Technology, and Initial Clinical Applications.- 31. The Use of Intracoronary Ultrasound to Assess Post-intervention Vessel Wall Responses.- 32. Quantitative Coronary Angiography plus Intravascular Ultrasound. Useful Additional Information.- Eight / New Technologies in Ultrasound.- 33. Ultrasound Angioplasty.- 34. In Vitro Analysis of a Model of Intracardiac Jet: a Laser Doppler Anemometric Study.- 35. Ultrasonic Characterization of Normal and Diseased Myocardium.- 36. The Clinical Impact of Computer Assisted Evaluation of Ultrasonic Tissue and Flow Data.- 37. Transesophageal Stress Echocardiography: the Combined Use of Transesophageal Atrial Pacing and Transesophageal Twodimensional Echocardiography.- 38. Transesophageal Echo Computer Tomography: Computational Reconstruction of Any Desired View of the Beating Heart.- 39. Future Directions in Cardiovascular Ultrasound.