Echocardiography

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.    

Physical Principles and the Basic Exam.- Conducting a Cardiac Ultrasound Examination.- Principles of Flow Assessment.- Principles of Hemodynamic Assessment.- Strain And Strain Rate Imaging: A New Clinical Approach To Quantifying.- Transesophageal Echocardiography: Principles and Application.- Aortic Valve Disease.- Mitral Valve Disease.- Tricuspid and Pulmonic Valve Disease.- Pulmonary Hypertension Clinical Echocardiography.- Criteria for Operative Intervention in Valvular Heart Disease Based On Echocardiography.- Clinical Echocardiography Prosthetic Valves.- The Use of Echocardiography In The Diagnosis And Treatment Of Patients With Infective Endocarditis.- Pericardial Effusion, Tamponade, and Constriction.- Clinical Echocardiography, Coronary Artery Disease, Assessing Regional Wall Motion.- Stress Echocardiography.- Principles of Myocardial Viability, Implications for Echocardiography.- Echocardiography for Assessing Acute Myocardial Infarction.- Mechanical Complications of Myocardial Infarction.- Cardiomyopatihies.- Echocardiography in Heart Failure.- Cardiac Resyncronization Therapy.- Intracardiac Masses.- Aortic Disorders.- Source of Embolus.- Simple Congenital Heart Defects.- Echocardiographic Evaluation of Complex Congenital Heart Disease.- Adult Congenital Heart Disease.- Intraoperative Echocardiography.- Contrast Echocardiography.- Three-Dimensional Echocardiography.- Ultrasound Stethoscopy.- Echo-Guided Interventions.