Echocardiography in Acute Coronary Syndrome

Introduction: Acute Coronary Syndrome and Echocardiography.- A Novel Pathway for the Management of Acute Coronary Syndrome.- Echocardiography in Acute Coronary Syndrome: Anatomy, Essential Views and Imaging Plains.- Echo Assessment of Systolic and Diastolic Function in Acute Coronary Syndrome.- Echocardiography Assessment of the Right Ventricle in Acute Coronary Syndrome.- Role of TEE in Acute Coronary Syndrome.- Newer Quantification Technique for the Left Ventricular Wall Motion Analyses.- 3D Echo in Acute Coronary Syndrome.- Contrast Echocardiography in Acute Coronary Syndromes.- Cardiac Risk Prevention Strategies.- The "Ischemic Cascade".- How to Perform Stress Echocardiography.- Principles of Interpretation of Stress Echocardiography.- Pathway for the Management of Patients Based on Stress Echo Results.- Echocardiography in Identifying Subclinical Disease.- Diagnosis of Acute Coronary Syndrome.- Comprehensive Evaluation of Cardiac Hemodynamics - "Echocardiography-Guided Cardiac Catheterization".- Echocardiography During Angina Pectoris and Acute Myocardial Infarction in the Emergency Room.- Handheld and Miniature Echocardiography in Acute Coronary Syndrome.- Acute Complications of Myocardial Infarction.- Chronic Complications of Acute Myocardial Infarction.- Echocardiographic-guided Pericardial Drainage in Acute Coronary Syndrome.- Risk Stratification Following Acute Myocardial Infarction: Role of Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography.- Echo Assessment of Myocardial Viability.- Pathway for the Management of Heart Failure Complicating Acute Coronary Syndrome.- Echocardiography for the Management of End Stage Ischemic Heart Disease and as a Tool for Resynchronization Therapy.- Future Applications of Echocardiography in Acute Coronary Syndrome.- MyocardialContrast Echocardiography in the Emergency Department.

Eyal Herzog, MD

Dr. Herzog is the Director of the Cardiac Care Unit at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York. He has published many articles in the field of ACS, echocardiography and clinical pathways, including a pathway for acute coronary syndrome and its implementation. He has also been chosen as the "Teacher of the Year," for the Department of Medicine at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital of Columbia University for the last 3 years consecutively. (This is the 5th largest training program in the U.S.)