Product Description: The increasing success of new intervention methods has created a strong demand for imaging techniques able to visualize the coronary anatomy and to assess its physiologic significance. This book debates various questions on intracoronary echocardiography in its first part, moving on through the contributions of ultrasounds in the pathophysiology and therapy of heart failure, non-invasive identification of the zones of myocardium in which reperfusion has successfully re-established an anterograde flow through the infarct-related coronary vessel and the results of a "European Consensus" on standards and guidelines for the study of regional and global left ventricular function...read more