Doppler Echocardiography for the Small Animal Practitioner

Practical guide to using color flow and spectral Doppler in interpreting echocardiographic findings in veterinary practice

Doppler Echocardiography for the Small Animal Practitioner provides a clinically oriented quick reference to using color flow and  spectral Doppler to interpret echocardiographic findings, enabling  readers to learn and apply these techniques and acquire background  knowledge of technical factors affecting diagnostic color and spectral  Doppler. Practically, the text also serves as a quick checklist for the  Doppler features of commonly acquired cardiac diseases in the dog and  cat. To aid in reader comprehension, the text contains color images and  video clips to support the descriptions. 

This  handbook is not intended as a comprehensive explanation of the  echocardiographic features associated with heart disease in animals.  Rather, it is intended as the next step for the general practitioner and  the non-cardiac specialist that have learned to acquire diagnostic 2D  and M-Mode echocardiographic studies. 

Written by a  highly experienced professionals with nearly 40 years of experience in  the field of veterinary echocardiography, sample topics covered in Doppler Echocardiography for the Small Animal Practitioner include: 

• Doppler principles as they apply to accuracy and evaluation of the color flow and spectral Doppler examination 
• Imaging  planes required for accurate evaluation of flows in the heart and an  explanation of and application of Doppler pressure gradients
• Interpretation of color flow signals and common Doppler features of the most frequently acquired heart diseases in dogs and cats
• Specific  intricacies of the field, including isovolumic relaxation time (IVRT)  and imaging planes techniques of the mitral valve and aorta

Doppler Echocardiography for the Small Animal Practitioner is a highly valuable resource and practical guide for all professionals  in the field who have learned to acquire diagnostic 2D and M-Mode  echocardiographic studies and now need to understand how to learn and  apply these techniques in a myriad of practical applications.