Echocardiography (2^nd Ed., 2nd ed. 2018)

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.

Dr Petros Nihoyannopoulos is Reader in Cardiology, at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College School of Medicine and Technology (University of London) and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist Hammersmith Hospital, UK. He is a fully trained clinical cardiologist having completed medical studies in Strasbourg-France in 1979. He is now Head of Echocardiography laboratories at Hammersmith Hospital. Dr Nihoyannopoulos has developed the Hammersmith Echocardiology laboratory to the highest international standards to accommodate the ever increasing clinical demand but also to the highest national teaching center for echocardiology. He organizes both a clinical echocardiography service department with comprehensive technical support and a research unit which annually trains 5-6 post-graduate students from all over the world. At present, he has trained over 50 doctors and technicians from all over Europe in the art of echocardiology. His main research interest is in the use of echocardiography and Doppler techniques in clinical practice. To this end he leads the echocardiography laboratory at the Hammersmith Hospital in the following specific areas: stress echocardiography to assess wall motion in patients with syndrome X; the development of computer software applications for the preclinical detection of heart muscle involvement in cardiomyopathy patients; the use of contrast echocardiography for enhanced improved endocardial border detection and myocardial perfusion at rest and during stress; the development of experimental models to image myocarditis using conjugated microbubbles. He is the past President of the British Society of Echocardiography and President-Elect of the European Association of Echocardiography of the ESC.

Dr Joseph Kisslo is Professor of Medicine at Duke University, Durham, NC USA. Dr. Kisslo's research has centered around the development and initial application of new ultrasound imaging devices. Focussed principally on morpho