Ideal for residents, fellows, and others who need a comprehensive, clinically focused understanding of echocardiography, The Echo Manual, 4th Edition, has been thoroughly revised with updated information, new chapters, and new video clips online. Written primarily by expert authorities from the Mayo Clinic, this best-selling reference remains a practical guide to the performance, interpretation, and clinical applications of today’s echocardiography.

• Features all-new chapters specifically devoted to 3D echo, interventional echocardiography, and hand-carried ultrasound.
• Includes new echo videos that provide a valuable learning experience of echocardiography in motion.
• Provides a concise, user-friendly summary of techniques, diagnostic criteria, and quantitative methods for echocardiography, Doppler echocardiography, and transesophageal echocardiography.
• Presents complex material in an approachable, visually appealing manner that focuses on the clinical application of echocardiography as a diagnostic tool.
• Covers the latest techniques, standards, and applications – all highlighted by more than 900 high-quality, annotated images that are true to gray scale and color.

Contents

۱: Transthoracic M-mode and Two-Dimensional Echocardiography
۲: Transthoracic Three-Dimensional Echocardiography
۳: Transesophageal Echocardiography
۴: Doppler Echocardiography and Color Flow Imaging: Comprehensive Noninvasive Hemodynamic Assessment
۵: Tissue Doppler and Strain Imaging
۶: Contrast Echocardiography
۷: Quantification of Left-sided Cardiac Chambers: Mass, Volumes, and Ejection Fraction
۸: Assessment of Diastolic Function
۹: Right Heart Assessment and Pulmonary Hypertension
۱۰: Cardiomyopathies
۱۱: Heart Failure, LVAD, and Transplantation
۱۲: Pericardial Diseases
۱۳: Native Valvular Heart Disease
۱۴: Prosthetic Valve Evaluation
۱۵: Infective Endocarditis
۱۶: Stress Echocardiography
۱۷: Coronary Artery Disease, Acute Myocardial Infarction, Takotsubo Syndrome
۱۸: Cardiac Diseases Due to Systemic Illness, Genetics, or Medication
۱۹: Cardiac Tumors and Masses
۲۰: Diseases of the Aorta
۲۱: Congenital Heart Disease
۲۲: Interventional Echocardiography
۲۳: Adult Intraoperative Echocardiography
۲۴: Intracardiac and Intravascular Ultrasound
۲۵: Vascular Tonometry and Imaging for Cardiovascular Risk Assessment
۲۶: Handheld Cardiac and Point-of-Care Ultrasound
۲۷: Physics of Ultrasound
۲۸: The Future of Echocardiography
۲۹: Artificial Intelligence and Echocardiography: Current Status and Future Directions