Case Based Echocardiography

1. Physics and Artifacts.- 2. Basic Ultrasound Views.- 3. Quantification of Left Ventricular Size and Wall Thickness.- 4. Quantification of Left Ventricular Systolic Function.- 5. Non-Invasive Hemodynamic Assessment.- 6. Echocardiographic Assessment of Diastolic Dysfunction (DD) and Heart Failure with Normal EF (HFnlEF).- 7.Tissue Doppler and Strain Imaging.- 8. Transesophageal Echocardiography.- 9. Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiography.- 10. Use of echo contrast in routine practice.- 11.Three Dimensional Echocardiography.- 12. Stress Echocardiography.- 13. Mechanical Dyssynchrony Assessment.- 14. Post Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) Optimization Protocol.- 15. Echocardiographic Assessment of the Right Ventricle.- 16. Aortic Valve Stenosis and Regurgitation.- 17. Mitral Regurgitation and Stenosis- 18. Right Sided Heart Valves assessment in Disease.- 19. The Assessment of Prosthetic Valve Function.- 20. Diseases of the Aorta.- 21. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.- 22. Stress Cardiomyopathy.- 23. Pericardial Diseases.- 24. Adult Congenital Heart Disease.- 25. Percutaneous interventions for congenital heart defects.- 26. Cardiac Tumors and Masses.- 27.Cardiac Transplantation.- 28. Vascular Imaging.

The authors are all internationally renowned experts in echocardiography and have considerable experience in training echocardiography staff in all aspects of best practice. Dr Abraham is based at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and Dr Miller is based at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester.

From the reviews:

"The intended audience includes sonographers and echocardiographers. ... Extensive topics ranging from the physics of echocardiography, to three-dimensional echocardiography, to the use of echocardiography to assess heart transplants are well covered. ... a wonderfully thorough resource for echocardiography board review. ... Readers who prefer an atlas or outline format you will find this to be an excellent resource for echocardiography. The topics it covers are important and wide-ranging, and the information is presented succinctly and with full-color, highly detailed, albeit small, images." (David J. Homan, Doody's Review Service, February, 2012)

"No heart specialist should be without this book, which expounds on advanced and sophisticated interpretation of echocardiographic data. Case Based Echocardiography liberally uses images and actual patient histories to teach the reader how to interpret echo results. Vital to any health-care professional who uses echocardiography in the daily course of their practice." (The Electric Review, October, 2012)

"This book ... is a collection of lecture notes around the echocardiography syllabus. ... find a home in the library of the larger echo department to be picked up when a brief text is required to address a particular case-based echo problem." (Guy Lloyd, Cardiology News, February/March, 2013)