This volume is a step-by-step educational echocardiography textbook from basic principles to advanced concepts. It is designed to rationalise and instruct readers on the rapid development in echocardiographic techniques, including real-time three-dimensional echocardiography, strain/strain rate imaging, and speckle tracking, which have greatly expanded the capabilities of cardiac imaging while overshadowing the importance of the basics of echocardiography.
Case-Based Textbook of Echocardiography offers a comprehensive review of echocardiography from basic skills to advanced techniques, including practical information from recently published ASE/EACVI guidelines and explanatory movies and figures. Providing balance between the science and clinical pearls, it is of great interest for all trainee cardiologists and echocardiographers and helpful to all clinicians in cardiology, internal medicine, cardiac surgery, interventio
nal cardiology and paediatric cardiology.
Basic principles of echocardiography.- Transthoracic echocardiography,
Standard windows and echocardiographic views, appropriateness criteria, and
clinical implications.- Transesophageal echocardiography Standard windows and
echocardiographic views, appropriateness criteria, and clinical
implications.- Sedation in Transesophageal echocardiography.- Basic of 3D
echocardiography, clinical use in daily practice.- Basic principles of fetal
echocardiography.- Handheld echocardiography and Pocket-size imaging
devices.- Pitfalls and artefacts.- Contrast Echocardiography.- Chamber
quantification.- Echocardiography evaluation of LV systolic function,
systolic dysfunction and ventricular dyssynchrony.- Echocardiographic
assessment of Myocardial Mechanics: Velocity, Strain, Strain rate ant
Torsion.- Echocardiographic evaluation of the diastolic function and
dysfunction.- Echocardiographic evaluation of the right heart.- How to assess
the left and right atria in clinical practice.- Useof echocardiography in
hypertension.- Echocardiographic assessment of native valvular heart
disease.- Echocardiographic assessment of prosthetic valves.- Infective
Endocarditis.- Pericardial disease.- Dilated cardiomyopathy and Myocarditis.-
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathies.- Restrictive cardiomyopathies.- Unclassified
cardiomyopathies (ARVC, LVNC).- Echocardiography in coronary artery disease.-
Echocardiographic assessment of Coronary Blood Flow.- Stress
echocardiography.- Echocardiography evaluation of congenital heart disease.-
Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography.- The Role of
Echocardiography in Mitral Valve Repair.- Intraprocedural transesophageal
echocardiography.- Echocardiography in the critical care .- Echocardiography
and Pulmonary Hypertension.- Heart transplantation .- Echocardiography in
Patients With Ventricular Assist Devices.- Cardiac masses and tumors.-
Cardiac source of emboli.- Disease of the aorta.- Role of echocardiography in
arrhythmia.- Echocardiographyin systemic diseases.- Echocardiography
End-Stage Renal Disease.- Echocardiography in Pregnancy.- Echocardiography in
Trauma.- Aging changes in Echocardiography.- Echocardiography in Obesity.-
Normal values and Useful formulas in echocardiography.
Anita Sadeghpour (Professor of Cardiology ) and Azin Alizadehasl (Associated professor of Cardiology) are fellows of echocardiography and echocardiography lab faculties in the Rajaie cardiovascular medical and research center, Iran university of medical science, and actively involved in the diagnosis and treatment of a considerable number of patients. They are prominent in educational and research activities and have many national and international publications. Their previous book entitle Comprehensive Approach to Adult Congenital Heart Disease published in 2014 by Springer.
They are Fellows of American College of Cardiology (FACC) , American society of echocardiography (FASE) and member of ASE Guidelines review committee. She is a member of writing group for Rheumatic heart disease guideline and standards, and head of echocardiography research center in Rajaie cardiovascular medical and research center.
Rajaie Heart Center,
a 700-bed hospital exclusively assigned to cardiovascular disease, is a major teaching hospital of Iran University of Medical Sciences. It has departments of adult and pediatric cardiology, echocardiography, CMR cardiac CT, cardiac surgery, anesthesiology, nuclear medicine, research, rehabilitation, outpatients and dentistry, all in service of cardiovascular patients.
They are involved in some journals as an associated editor and editorial board. Anita Sadeghpour is the Editor in chief of Archives of Cardiovascular Imaging journal and Editorial Board member of the CASE the official journal of the American Society of Echocardiography and Azin Alizadehasl is associated editor of Archives of Cardiovascular Imaging journal and editorial board member of "Journal of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Research".
