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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Fedele, Francesco
• De Castro, Stefano
• Volponi, M.Cristina
• Addonisio, Luigi
• Cacciotti, Luca

Titel

The Echocardiography Laboratory in the informatic era

Ist Teil von

• The American journal of cardiology, 2000-08, Vol.86 (4), p.33-35

Ort / Verlag

New York, NY: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2000

Quelle

Elsevier Journal Backfiles on ScienceDirect (DFG Nationallizenzen)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article overviews the latest progress in echocardiography in this informatic era. We will present new, different techniques available in clinical settings for qualitative and quantitative evaluation of global and regional left ventricular function, showing their helpfulness in clinical work. We will also report our personal experiences with 3-dimensional (3-D) echocardiography in quantification of left ventricular total mass and left-ventricular dysfunctional mass, and in evaluation of left-ventricular parietal stress. Finally, we will show how the organization of a modern echocardiography laboratory is changing after informatic progress: we will report our personal experiences about transmission of echocardiography data between 2 work stations, located in different places; in this way we can realize an informatic web, which can go out from the single echocardiography laboratories and move toward intradepartment and interdepartment services.