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.

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. .