The Ultimate Echo Guide

<i>The Ultimate Echo Guide</i>, Second Edition is designed to provide a complete echocardiography consultation in an easy, fast, and succinct manner.</p>You will find essential information for a range of commonly encountered pathologies. Discussions of each echo technique (M-mode, 2-D, Doppler TTE, and TEE) include best imaging planes, diagnostic methods, diagnostic formulas, key diagnostic features, data on accuracy and prognosis, and alerts to potential pitfalls.</p>New to the Second Edition is a chapter on Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy, new comparison tables and figure for findings from TTE and TEE, and additional color images. This practical guide comes with a companion website, which includes more than 375 echo video clips and the ability to search across the text.</p><ul> <li><b>Concise, straightforward text with bullet points</b> allows you to access key information at a glance--a great time-saver for the busy clinician.</li> <li><b>Specific applications</b> address the use of echo in the pregnant patient, echo parameters of poor prognosis, echo parameters indicating surgical and non-surgical intervention, intraoperative echo, and follow-up.</li> <li><b>More than 260 oversized high-resolution TEE illustrations and 3D TTE and TEE figures</b> help to display the anatomy at actual size to enhance diagnostic features.</li> <li><b>Companion website</b> with searchable text and more than 375 echo video clips</li> <li><b>Informative text and tables</b> with summary information for up-to-date appropriateness criteria (by ASE guidelines), diagnostic methods and criteria, diagnostic accuracy, disease stratification, prognostic indicators, parameters indicating surgical or non-surgical intervention, and follow-up.</li> <li><b>Practical content</b> concentrating on information needed for daily or routine echocardiographic performance and interpretation.</li> <li><b>This practical guide is the ideal reference</b> to use when preparing for the echo boards, or as a practical tool for teaching/speaker conferences</li></ul>Selected as one of <b>-The 2005 Great Books in Cardiology-</b> by <b><i>The American Journal of Cardiology(R)</i></b></p><p> </p>