Clinical Echocardiography - Hardcover

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This text aims to put this major diagnostic tool into clinical context. It begins with a brief introduction to the technology, followed by chapters on different disease patterns. Each one discusses the indications and gives many examples of echodiagrams showing the diseases.

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Echocardiography now has a pivotal role in diagnostic cardiology.

Here at last is a cardiology text in which echocardiography is integrated with clinical practice. Illustrated with over 400 examples, the chapters include:

• Basic technical background


• Normal heart


• Aortic valve disease


• Mitral valve disease


• Infective endocarditis


• Artificial heart valves


• Right heart


• Ischaemic heart disease


• Cardiomyopathies disease


• Aortic disease


• Emboli


• Cardiac masses


• Congenital heart disease


• The future

This concise text atlas is at the same time a comprehensive introduction to echocardiography and a practical cardiology handbook, invaluable for clinicians, trainees in cardiology, and echocardiography technicians alike.