Transesophageal Echocardiography of the Tricuspid and Pulmonary Valves
Worldwide, valvular heart disease remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality. In India, 20 percent of all cardiac surgical cases are valvular in nature and Rheumatic Heart Disease is like an epidemic as far greater number of patients have disease that is managed medically. Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is an invaluable tool to diagnose valve lesions today preoperatively, perioperatively, and postoperatively and TEE for the right sided valves is an important armamentarium cardiac surgery field.
Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) has brought together many medical disciplines and no other technology in recent times has evoked such an impact on clinicians and a change in their practice as much as TEE, particularly in the operating room and intensive care unit.
The book has three sections one each on the detailed TEE of the TV and PV and a quick revision with MCQs as a short 3rd section of the book is a treatise to the reader in the form of multiple choice questions— without explanation. It will also help in preparing for the examination. Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is the perfect launch pad for better understanding especially now the 3D TEE for TV repair.
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