Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Critical Care Ultrasound: Practice and Perspectives
(Paulo Marcelino, Susan Marum, Antonio Figueiredo, Maria João Oliveira, Hospital de Curry Cabral, Intensive Care Unit, Lisbon, Portugal)

The Transesophageal Echocardiography during the Implantation of the Core Valve Percutaneous Aortic Prosthesis: When and Why?”
(Laura Cejudo Díaz del Campo, Dolores Mesa Rubio, Department of Cardiology, Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía, Córdoba, Spain)

Evaluation of the Right Chambers of the Heart by Echocardiography
(Tanya Dutta, Wilbert S. Aronow, Cardiology Division, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, USA)

Mid-Term Results after Left Atrial Radiofrequency Ablation Associated with Mitral and Aortic Valve Surgery for Degenerative Disease
(Paolo Nardi, Giovanni Alfonso Chiariello, Luigi Chiariello, Cardiac Surgery Unit, Policlinico Universitario Tor Vergata, Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy)

Complications of Intraoperative Defibrillation Threshold Testing
(Maged F. Nageh, Department of Electrophysiology/Cardiology, Regional Arrhythmia Center, Southern California Kaiser Permanente Medical Group, Los Angeles, California, USA)

Pathogenesis and Future Treatments of Chronic Cardiac Rejection
(Jun-ichi Suzuki, Mitsuaki Isobe, Ryuichi Morishita, Ryozo Nagai, Department of Advanced Clinical Science and Therapeutics, University of Tokyo, Japan, and others)

Safety and Procedure of Defibrillation in Helicopters
(H. Coadou, E. Cluis, E. Wiel, Emergency Department, University Hospital of Lille, France)

Index