Overview
- Provides a complete description of cardiomyopathies, including clinical and imaging assessment, differential diagnosis, genetics, prognosis and treatment
- Includes high-quality images that will help the reader to recognize the main features of different types of cardiomyopathy
- Presents and explains the latest advances in the imaging of cardiomyopathies
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Dilated Cardiomyopathy
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Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
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Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Bruno Pinamonti is Head of the Echocardiography Laboratory, Cardiology Dept., Trieste University Hospital (“Ospedali Riuniti” di Trieste) and professor of Clinical Echocardiography at the postgraduate school of the same hospital. He coordinates the clinical research of the Cardiology Group in Trieste on heart failure and myocardial diseases. His research interests mainly focus on echocardiography, cardiomyopathies and diastolic dysfunction. He is author of more than 100 publications. He is currently member and scientific advisor of the European Society of Echocardiography.
Gianfranco Sinagra, specialized in Cardiology, is Associate Professor of Cardiology and Director of the Structure of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Department, at the University Hospital of Trieste. He attended courses at the St George’s Hospital of London (1989), and the Wallenberg Laboratory for Cardiovascular Research of the Sahlgrenska Hospital, Gothenburg University, Sweden (1991 and 1993). Component of the End Point Clinical Event Committee of the ValHeFT Trial (N:Engl J Med 2001; 345:1667), coordinated by the Veterans Affairs- USA web, ANMCO and Mario Negri Pharmacological Research Institute of Milan. Main researcher since 2003 of the project COMIRB // 99-177 14.05.2003 “Identification of a Gene for Autosomal Dominant Dilated Cardiomyopathy on Chromosome 9”, granted by the National Institute of Health-USA, in cooperation with the Health Science Centre, University of Colorado, Denver. He is the author of more than 250 publications.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Clinical Echocardiography and Other Imaging Techniques in Cardiomyopathies
Editors: Bruno Pinamonti, Gianfranco Sinagra
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06019-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-06018-7Published: 22 August 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34856-8Published: 30 April 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-06019-4Published: 12 August 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 280
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations, 61 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cardiology, Medicine/Public Health, general, Diagnostic Radiology