Lancellotti Patrizio, Cosyns Bernard (Eds.) The EACVI Echo Handbook

European Society of Cardiology, 2016. — 610 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-871362-3.Concise, fact-based and packed with images and illustrations The EACVI Echo Handbook is the perfect companion for making both every day and complex clinical decisions. Designed and written by leading experts in the field of echocardiography for use in the clinical arena, this practical handbook provides the necessary information for reviewing, or consulting while performing or reporting on an echo or making clinical decisions based on echo findings.Disease-focussed and succinct, it covers the information needed to accurately perform and interpret echocardiograms, including how to set up the echo-machine to optimize an examination and how to perform echocardiographic disease assessment; the clinical indicators, procedures and contraindications.Linked to EACVI recommendations and the EACVI Core Curriculum The EACVI Echo Handbook is an essential and easily accessible manual on using echocardiography for sonographers and trainee cardiologists that should never be left behind when performing an echocardiogram.Examination
The standard transthoracic echo examination
The standard transoesophageal examination
Assessment of the left ventricular systolic function
Assessment of diastolic function
Ischaemic cardiac disease (ICD)
Heart valve disease
Cardiomyopathies
Right heart function and pulmonary artery pressure
Pericardial disease
Cardiac transplants
Critically ill patients
Adult congenital heart disease
Cardiac source of embolism (SOE) and cardiac masses
Diseases of the aorta
Stress echocardiography
Systemic disease and other conditions