Clinical Echocardiography of the Dog and Cat 1st Edition

Master Canine and Feline Echocardiography with This Clinical Guide

Clinical Echocardiography of the Dog and Cat covers both classical and newer techniques, showing you how to assess, diagnose, and treat canine and feline heart disease. This book is a clinical guide that demonstrates how to acquire images, recognize patterns, relate them to different diseases, and manage patient care with those findings.

Key Features

• Comprehensive Coverage: Provides dedicated coverage of canine and feline echocardiography, with an in-depth discussion of cardiac ultrasound, including the newest ones such as Tissue Doppler and speckle tracking imaging, and transesophageal and 3D echocardiography.
• Practical Clinical Approach: It shows how these echocardiographic modalities are not just research tools, but useful in diagnosing and staging heart disease in day-to-day practice.
• Presurgical Assessment: A section on presurgical assessment helps you assess risk and prepare for catheter-based correction of cardiac defects.
• Enhanced Visuals: Over 400 full-color illustrations and 42 summary tables help you achieve precise, high-quality imaging for accurate assessment.
• Companion Website: A companion website includes 50 videos of cardiac ultrasound exams and procedures, illustrating points such as swirling volutes, color flow display of blood flows, and tumors flicking in and out of the echocardiographic field.
• Expert Authorship: Written by veterinary cardiology specialists and echocardiographers, ensuring the content is authoritative and reliable.
• Broad Audience: An indispensable echocardiology resource that is ideal for general practitioner veterinarians as well as specialists, including cardiologists and radiologists.