Thoroughly updated for its Third Edition, The Echo Manual is a practical guide to the performance, interpretation, and clinical applications of echocardiography.

The Echo Manual provides a concise, user-friendly summary of techniques, diagnostic criteria, and quantitative methods for both echocardiography and Doppler echocardiography. Discussion of each clinical problem also includes transesophageal echocardiography.

This edition covers the latest techniques, standards, and applications and includes new contrast agents. All references have been updated. More than 500 images--well annotated and true to gray scale and colour--give readers an immediate grasp of salient points.

Features:

• Thoroughly updated Third Edition of best-selling echocardiography manual
• Covers the latest techniques, standards, and applications and includes new contrast agents
• Practical guide to performance, interpretation, and clinical applications of echocardiography
• Breadth of coverage in a concise format
• Written by recognised authorities at the Mayo Clinic
• Explains how to perform a comprehensive examination according to a referral diagnosis
• Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) discussed for each clinical entity
• More than 500 images—well annotated and true to gray scale and colour—give readers an immediate grasp of salient points

Contents

1. How to Obtain a Good Echocardiography Examination: Ultrasound Physics, Technique, and Medical Knowledge
2. Transthoracic Echocardiography
3. Transesophageal and Intracardiac Echocardiography
4. Doppler Echocardiography and Color Flow Imaging
5. Tissue Doppler Imaging, SStrain Imaging, and Dyssynchrony Assessment
6. Contrast Echocardiography
7. Assessment of Systolic Function and Quantification of Cardiac Chambers
8. Assessment of Diastolic Function and Diastolic Heart Failure
9. Pulmonary Hypertension and Pulmonary Vein Stenosis
10. Coronary Artery Disease and Acute Myocardial Infarction
11. Stress Echocardiography
12. Valvular Heart Disease
13. Prosthetic Valve Evaluation
14. Infective Endocarditis
15. Cardiomyopathies
16. Cardiac Diseases Due to Systemic Illness, Genetics, Medication, or Infection
17. Pericardial Disease
18. Diseases of the Aorta
19. Tumors and Masses
20. Diseases of the Aorta
21. Echocardiography in Congenital Heart Disease
22. Intraoperative Echocardiography
23. Vascular Imaging and Tonometry
24. Goal-Directed and Comprehensive Examination

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