SECTION I: FUNDAMENTALS OF
HEMODYNAMIC WAVEFORMS.
PART 1: HEMODYNAMIC WAVEFORMS: NORMAL AND PATHOLOGIC.
1.1 Pressure Waves: Measurement systems and Artifacts.
1.2 Right Heart Hemodynamics.
1.3 The Tricuspid V Wave.
1.4 Left-Sided V Wave.
1.5 The LVEDP.
1.6 Simultaneous RV and LV pressure.
1.7 The effects of NTG.
1.8 Pulsus Alternans.
PART 2: VALVULAR HEMODYNAMICS.
2.1 Aortic Valve.
2.1.1 The Stenotic Aortic Valve.
2.1.2 Low-Gradient Aortic Valve Stenosis.
2.1.3 The Regurgitant Aortic Valve.
2.1.4 Aortic Regurgitation.
2.1.5 Prosthetic Aortic Root And Valve.
2.1.6 Acute Aortic Insufficiency.
2.2 The Mitral Valve.
2.2.1 Mitral Valve Gradients.
2.2.2 Multivalvular Regurgitant Lesions.
2.3 The Pulmonary Valve.
PART 3: VALVULOPLASTY.
3.1.1 Percutaneous Aortic Balloon Valvuloplasty.
3.1.2 Percutaneous Mitral Balloon Valvuloplasty.
3.1.3 Percutaneous Pulmonic Balloon Valvuloplasty.
PART 4: CONSTRICTIVE PHYSIOLOGY.
4.1 Pericardial Compressive Hemodynamics.
4.2 Dynamics of Ventricular Pressure Interactions.
4.3 Criteria of Constrictive Physiology.
4.4 Cardiac Tamponade.
PART 5: ARRHYTHMIAS.
5.1 Cardiac Arrhythmias.
5.2 Pacemaker Arrhythmias.
PART 6: HOCM.
PART 7: CORONARY HEMODYNAMICS.
PART 8: ADULT CONGENTIAL ANOMALIES AND HEMODYANMICS.
PART 9: EXTRA HEARTS.
PART 10: RIGHT VENTRICULAR INFARCTION.
SECTION II: CLINICAL AND BEDSIDE
APPLICATIONS OF HEMODYNAMICS.
1. Evaluation of Dyspnea.
2. Evaluation of Edema and Anasarca.
3. Evaluation of Syncope.
4. Evaluation of Hypotension, low cardiac output.