Doppler Echocardiography for the Small Animal Practitioner

Doppler Echocardiography for the Small Animal Practitioner offers a practical guide to using colour flow and spectral Doppler in interpreting echocardiographic findings in veterinary practice.

Doppler Echocardiography for the Small Animal Practitioner provides a clinically oriented quick reference to using colour flow and spectral Doppler to interpret echocardiographic findings, enabling readers to learn and apply these techniques and acquire background knowledge of technical factors affecting diagnostic colour and spectral Doppler. Practically, the text also serves as a quick checklist for the Doppler features of commonly acquired cardiac diseases in dogs and cats. To aid in reader comprehension, the text contains colour images and video clips to support the descriptions.

This handbook is not intended as a comprehensive explanation of the echocardiographic features associated with heart disease in animals. Rather, it is intended as the next step for the general practitioner and the non-cardiac specialist who have learned to acquire diagnostic 2D and M-Mode echocardiographic studies.

Written by highly experienced professionals with nearly 40 years of experience in the field of veterinary echocardiography, sample topics covered in Doppler Echocardiography for the Small Animal Practitioner include:

• Doppler principles as they apply to accuracy and evaluation of the colour flow and spectral Doppler examination
• Imaging planes required for accurate evaluation of flows in the heart and an explanation of and application of Doppler pressure gradients
• Interpretation of colour flow signals and common Doppler features of the most frequently acquired heart diseases in dogs and cats
• Specific intricacies of the field, including isovolumic relaxation time (IVRT) and imaging planes techniques of the mitral valve and aorta

Doppler Echocardiography for the Small Animal Practitioner is a highly valuable resource and practical guide for all professionals in the field who have learned to acquire diagnostic 2D and M-Mode echocardiographic studies and now need to understand how to learn and apply these techniques in a myriad of practical applications.

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