Clinical Echocardiography

A practical resource designed to meet the needs of the clinician involved in the diagnosis and evaluation of patients with cardiovascular disorders. The book establishes the bare bone physical principles that govern echo and doppler and offers essential guidance on how to conduct an examination , how to obtain the optimal image, how to assess and interpret the information gained. The clinical topics are organised by disease and there is an emphasis on prioritizing diagnostic findings and outlining recommendations for subsequent medical and surgical therapy. Throughout, color images and line drawings are fully integrated with the text in order to present essential information in a recognizable clinical context. Each of the disease focused chapters will follow, as far as is possible, a consistent organizational structure and will include the liberal use of boxes and charts summarizing assessment and quantitative methods, differential diagnoses, management recommendations. Full color images, line illustrations and figures will be used to present essential information in an understandable and retainable format.