Main description:

An echocardiogram uses sound waves to produce images of the heart. This common test allows a doctor to see the heart beating and pumping blood, and subsequently identify heart disease.

This book is a complete guide to performing and interpreting an echocardiogram. 56 chapters describe both basic and advanced techniques for diagnosing different heart disorders.

The second edition has been fully revised to provide clinicians with the latest developments and techniques in the field.

Seven new chapters have been added to this edition covering echocardiography and artificial intelligence, hypertension, arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia, Kawasaki disease, cardio-oncology, diabetes mellitus, and foetal echo.

Dedicated chapters emphasise the role of echo in surgical procedures, and explore its use with electrophysiology - in patients with pacemakers and those undergoing cardiac resynchronisation therapy.

The book is highly illustrated with many 2D and 3D echo images helping explain the descriptive text for each topic.

The previous edition (9789352700929) published in 2017.

Contents:

Basics of Ultrasound
Introduction to Doppler Echocardiography
How to do Basic Trans Thoracic Echocardiography
Performance of Transesophageal Echocardiography: Basic Principles and Views
Chamber Quantification: Left Ventricle
Chamber Quantification: Right Ventricle
Chamber Quantification: Left Atrium and Right Atrium
Echocardiography in Pulmonary Hypertension
Diastolic Function
Echocardiographic Evaluation of Mitral Valve
Echocardiographic Evaluation of Mitral Stenosis
Step-by-Step Evaluation of Mitral Regurgitation using Echocardiography
Examination of Valves: Aortic valve
Echocardiography in Aortic Stenosis
Echocardiography in Aortic Regurgitation
Echocardiographic Evaluation of the Aorta
Echocardiography for Cardiac Prevention
Echocardiographic Assessment of Pulmonary Valve
Echocardiographic Assessment of Tricuspid Valve
Prosthetic Heart Valve: Echocardiographic Evaluation
Pulmonary Thromboembolism
Tissue Doppler and Strain Imaging: Physical Principles and Clinical Applications
Three-dimensional/Four-dimensional Echocardiography
Coronary Artery Disease
Stress Echocardiography for the Evaluation of Coronary Artery Disease
Myocardial Contrast Echocardiography
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Echocardiography in Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Restrictive Cardiomyopathy
Role of Echocardiography in Diagnosis of Acute Rheumatic Fever
Pericardium and Pericardial Diseases: An Echocardiographic Study
Pediatric Transthoracic Echocardiography: Basic Views
Echocardiographic Assessment of Acyanotic Congenital Heart Diseases
Congenital Cyanotic Heart Disease
Echo in Emergency Room
Cardiac Tumors
Echocardiography in Infective Endocarditis
Cardiovascular Manifestations of Systemic Diseases
Artifacts in Echocardiography
Interventional and Fusion Echocardiography
Echocardiography for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement
Echocardiography in Percutaneous Mitral Valve Interventions
Intravascular Ultrasound
Echocardiographic Examination of a Patient with Pacemaker
Echocardiography in Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
Left Atrial Appendage
Echocardiography for Interventions in Congenital Heart Diseases: Left-to-right Shunt Lesions
Echocardiography in Operation Theatre
Echocardiographic Practices in India: Legal Issues
Artificial Intelligence & Echocardiography: Current Status and Future Perspective
Status of Echocardiography in Hypertension
Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy
Role of 2-D Echo in Evaluation of Coronary Artery Disease in Kawasaki Disease
Echocardiography in Cardio Oncology
Echocardiographic Evaluation of Diabetes Mellitus
Fetal Echocardiography