PART I

COMPONENTS OF MYOCARDIAL PERFORMANCE

1

Preload   Amanda R. Vest and Frederick Heupler Jr.

3

2

Afterload   Amanda R. Vest and Frederick Heupler Jr.

29

3

Contractility   Justin M. Dunn and Frederick Heupler Jr.

53

4

Cardiac Output   Marwa Sabe and Frederick Heupler Jr.

65

PART II

METHODS OF HEMODYNAMIC EVALUATION

5

Key Clinical Findings   Sachin S. Goel and William J. Stewart

77

6

Echocardiography   Omeed Zardkoohi and Richard A. Grimm

99

7

CT and MR Cardiovascular Hemodynamics   Andrew O. Zurick III and Milind Desai

129

8

Cardiac Catheterization: Right and Left Heart Catheterization   Praneet Kumar and Michael D. Faulx

155

PART III

SPECIFIC DISEASE STATES

9

Tamponade   Olcay Aksoy and Leonardo Rodriguez

181

10

Pericardial Constriction and Restrictive Cardiomyopathy   Parag Patel and Allan Klein

197

11

Valvular Heart Disease   Amar Krishnaswamy and Brian P. Griffin

215

12

Pulmonary Hypertension   George M. Cater and Richard A. Krasuski

241

13

Acute Decompensated Heart Failure   Andrew D.M. Grant, Michael A. Hanna, and Mazen A. Hanna

263

14

Intracardiac Shunts   Alper Ozkan, Olcay Aksoy, and E. Murat Tuzcu

285

15

Shock   Michael P. Brunner and Venugopal Menon

301

16

Intracoronary Hemodynamic Assessment: Coronary Flow Reserve (CFR) and Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR)   James E. Harvey and Stephen G. Ellis

319

Index

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