TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC ASSESSMENT OF VALVULAR HEART DISEASE A1 - Sharma, Kavita A1 - Mentzer, Gina G. A1 - Orsinelli, David A. A2 - Orsinelli, David A. PY - 2016 T2 - Color Atlas and Synopsis of Echocardiography AB - Echocardiography is the principal imaging method employed to assess patients with known or suspected valvular heart disease, including those with prosthetic valves. It has largely supplanted the use of invasive cardiac catheterization in the evaluation and management of these patients.1,2,3 The publications by Holen and Hatle in the late 1970s4,5 in which Doppler echocardiography was demonstrated to be a reliable noninvasive technique to accurately assess valve function resulted in more widespread acceptance and utilization of echocardiography. Important early publications also validated the use of echocardiography and the Doppler technique in the assessment of cardiovascular hemodynamics. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/16 UR - accesscardiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1132341354 ER -