The Echo Manual, Echocardiography

Thoroughly updated for its Third Edition, this best-selling manual is a practical guide to the performance, interpretation, and clinical applications of echocardiography. The Echo Manual is written by recognised authorities at the Mayo Clinic and provides a concise, user-friendly summary of techniques, diagnostic criteria, and quantitative methods for both echocardiography and Doppler echocardiography. Discussion of each clinical problem also includes transesophageal echocardiography. This edition covers the latest techniques, standards, and applications and includes new contrast agents. All references have been updated. More than 500 images--well annotated and true to gray scale and colour--give readers an immediate grasp of salient points.

FEATURES:

• Thoroughly updated Third Edition of best-selling echocardiography manual
• Covers the latest techniques, standards, and applications and includes new contrast agents
• Practical guide to performance, interpretation, and clinical applications of echocardiography
• Breadth of coverage in a concise format
• Written by recognised authorities at the Mayo Clinic
• Explains how to perform a comprehensive examination according to a referral diagnosis
• Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) discussed for each clinical entity
• More than 500 images—well annotated and true to gray scale and colour—give readers an immediate grasp of salient points