Echocardiographic Evaluation of Patients with Implanted Devices

This book describes the always-challenging echocardiographic evaluation of patients with a pacemaker, defibrillator or resynchronization device. With no defined set of guidelines to orient clinicians about the appropriate evaluation of patients with implanted devices, this book describes the management and evaluation of patients with often highly complex clinical profiles.

Echocardiographic Evaluation of Patients with Implanted Devices reviews chamber quantification, systolic and diastolic function evaluation, analysis of wall motion abnormalities, description and review of mitral apparatus and mitral regurgitation, tricuspid apparatus and tricuspid regurgitation, and the evaluation of echocardiographic parameters after cardiac resynchronization therapy. Also included are extensive sections on the complications of the process and how to identify these at the earliest stage. It is a critical resource for cardiologists, sonographers and interventional cardiologists, and all involved in the management of these patients.

General description of types and modes of pacing.- Left ventricle systolic function evaluation in patients with implanted devices.- Left ventricle diastolic function evaluation in patients with implanted devices.- Lead position evaluation in patients with implanted devices.- Right ventricle function evaluation in patients with implanted devices.- Mitral regurgitation echocardiographic evaluation in patients with implanted devices.- Tricuspid valve evaluation in patients with implanted devices.- Echocardiographic follow-up the patients with implanted devices.- Echocardiography-guided optimization of atrioventricular and interventricular delay in patients with implanted devices.- Echocardiographic evaluation of complications after intracardiac devices implantation.

Despina-Manuela Toader is a senior cardiologist at the Emergency Hospital of Craiova, Craiova, Romania, since 2003. She is Clinical Head of the European accredited echocardiographic laboratory of the Cardiology Clinic of this hospital since 2019. Her scientific activity includes over 130 communications and publications in cardiovascular research (hypertension, echocardiography, myocardial ischemia), six investigator grants, and two awards in the field of hypertension. She is a member of the Romanian Society of Cardiology, Romanian Society of Hypertension, European Society of Cardiology, European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging, European Society of Hypertension, Balkan Medical Union, American Society of Echocardiography and British Society of Echocardiography.