This updated textbook provides an essential evidence-based approach to echocardiography and includes practical case-based instruction illustrating a wide variety of clinical scenarios in which echocardiography is a vital diagnostic option for physicians. It reflects how echocardiography has evolved into a complex multimodality method for evaluating and quantifying cardiovascular lesions, and explains the use of hemodynamic assessment of the heart using echocardiography, transesophageal and three-dimensional echocardiography, deformation imaging and assessment of myocardial perfusion, which have added a new dimension to real-time noninvasive evaluation of patients.

Echocardiography highlights the clinical utility of these evolving modalities that are now crucial to the renaissance of echocardiography, and it provides a thorough clinical review of this most revealing and adaptable methods of imaging a patient. The Editors and their world-class group of contributors have created an essential reference for those in training or who already use echocardiography in their practice.

Contents

۱: Physical Principles of Ultrasound
۲: Conducting a Cardiac Ultrasound Examination
۳: Machine Controls and Optimizing the Images
۴: Cardiac Anatomy by Three-Dimensional Echocardiography
۵: Principles of Flow Assessment
۶: Principles of Measuring Chamber Size, Volume and Hemodynamic Assessment of the Heart
۷: Myocardial Deformation Imaging
۸: Transesophageal Echocardiography: Principles and Application
۹: Aortic Pathology
۱۰: Mitral Valve Disease
۱۱: Tricuspid and Pulmonary Valve Disease
۱۲: The Role of Stress in Valvular Heart Disease
۱۳: Replacement Heart Valves
۱۴: Infective Endocarditis
۱۵: Assessing the Right Ventricle
۱۶: Pulmonary Hypertension
۱۷: Pulmonary Embolism
۱۸: Pericardial Effusion, Tamponader and Constrictive Pericarditis
۱۹: Coronary Artery Disease: Assessing Regional Wall Motion
۲۰: Echocardiography for Assessing Acute Myocardial Infarction and Complications
۲۱: Stress Echocardiography
۲۲: Assessing Myocardial Viability: Principles and the Role of Echocardiography
۲۳: Contrast Echocardiography
۲۴: The Cardiomyopathies
۲۵: Echocardiography in Heart Failure
۲۶: Echocardiography in Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
۲۷: Assessing Atrial Function
۲۸: Cardiac Masses
۲۹: Aortic Disorders
۳۰: Source of Embolus
۳۱: Congenital Heart Disease: Simple Lesions
۳۲: Assessing the Patient with Congenital Heart Disease
۳۳: Assessing the Adult with Congenital Heart Disease
۳۴: Strain Basics and Global Longitudinal Strain
۳۵: Regional Strain: The Physiology of Dyssynchrony
۳۶: Strain in Complex Congenital Heart Disease in Infants and Children
۳۷: The Athlete’s Heart
۳۸: Cardio-Oncology
۳۹: Pocket-Size Hand-Held Echocardiography
۴۰: Intraoperative Echocardiography
۴۱: Role of Echocardiography in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation
۴۲: Echocardiography in Mitral Valve Repair
۴۳: Echocardiography in Device Closure and Paravalvular Leaks
۴۴: Echocardiography in Electrophysiology