Textbook of Clinical Echocardiography 7th Edition

Your Guide to Clinical Echocardiography, 7th Edition

This book clearly outlines how to master the core principles of echocardiographic imaging to make an initial diagnosis and integrate this data in clinical decision-making. As a best-selling text, it is ideal for cardiology fellows, medicine residents, and cardiac sonography students. The book teaches all the essential elements of ultrasound physics, tomographic and 3D anatomy, image acquisition, and advanced imaging modalities, all with a practical, problem-based approach.

Key Features

• Foundational Concepts: Concentrates on the foundational concepts you need to know to perform and interpret echocardiographic studies and to pass your board exams.
• Updated Content: Incorporates new clinical knowledge, new guidelines, and recent innovations in echocardiographic imaging, including advances in handheld devices and specialized echo applications.
• Advanced Techniques: Covers all advanced echo techniques, including contrast echo, 3D echo, and myocardial mechanics, as well as intraoperative and intra-procedural transesophageal echocardiography (TEE).
• Physics Explained: Offers a must-know explanation of the physics behind echocardiography and its applications in the clinical setting, with dedicated boxes in each chapter for quick review and greater comprehension.
• Visual Learning: Matches full-color anatomic drawings of heart structures with 2D and 3D echocardiographic views, and includes dozens of new illustrations throughout the text.
• Video Library: Pairs state-of-the-art echo images with more than 360 videos that illustrate the full range of cardiac disease diagnosed with this powerful imaging approach.
• Enhanced eBook: An eBook version is included with purchase, allowing you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.