Echocardiography in Practice: A Case-Orientated Approach

A short clinical text introduces each of the 150 cases. The echocardiograms are demonstrated by 2-5 high-quality images accompanied by legends describing the views and salient details. These include two-dimesional images, M-mode tracings, spectral Doppler and colour Doppler echocardiograms. A short commentary follows in which the relevance of the echocardiographic findings is discussed. The text will also be useful for those taking the echocardiography examinations of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE).

Table of Contents:
Section I: Pericardial Disease 1. Mobile Pericardial Masses 2. Chronic Tamponade 3. Intrapericardial Tumor with Pericardial Effusion 4. Thymoma 5. Constrictive Pericardial Disease 6. Postoperative Tamponade 7. Pleural Effusion Causing Cardiac Tamponade 8. Pericardial Cyst 9. Loculated Pericardial Effusion 10. Para-aortic Lymphoma Section II: The Right Heart 11. Superior Vena Cava Mass 12. Chiari Network-normal Variant 13. Tricuspid Valve Injury After Cardiac Transplant 14. Tricuspid Valve Vegetation Associated with a Pacemaker Wire 15. Ebstein's Anomaly 16. Right Atrial Thrombus 17. Carcinoid Heart Disease 18. Right Atrial Mass-biopsy Under Echocardiographic Guidance 19. Persistent Left Superior Vena Cava 20. Cardiac Neurofibroma 21. Rheumatic Valvular Disease 22. Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis 23. Prosthetic Tricuspid Valve Obstruction 24. Multivalvular Endocarditis 25. Right Ventricular Enlargement-normal Finding 26. Severe Pulmonary Hypertension 27. Right Ventricular Mass 28. Right Ventricular Dysplasia 29. Pectus Excavatum 30. Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension after Thromboendartectomy Section III: The Pulmonary Artery 31. Pulmonary Stenosis 32. Massive Pulmonary Embolism 33. Endocarditis with Pericardial Effusion 34. Pulmonary Embolism 35. Thrombus Associated with a Pulmonary Artery Catheter 36. Pulmonary Artery Dissection 37. Acquired Pulmonary Stenosis after the Ross Procedure 38. Compression of the Heart by Anterior Mediastinal Mass 39. Pulmonary Saddle Embolism 40. Acquired Supravalvular Pulmonary Stenosis Section IV: The Left Atrium 41. Interatrial Septal Aneurysm 42. Lipomatous Hypertrophy of the Interatrial Septum 43. Impending Paradoxical Embolism 44. Secundum Atrial Septal Defect 45. Partial Atrioventricular Canal Defect 46. Sinus Venosus Atrial Septal Defect 47. Left Atrial Appendage Thrombus 48. Left Atrial Myxoma 49. Left Atrial Thrombus 50. Left Atrial Thrombus and Spontaneous Contrast 51. Cor Triatriatum 52. Bronchogenic Carcinoma Invading in the Left Atrium Section V: The Mitral Valve 53. Mitral Valve Prolapse 54. Mixed Rheumatic Valve Disease 55. Mitral Stenosis with Large Left Atrial thrombus 56. Percutaneous Balloon Mitral Valvuloplasty Under Transesophageal Guidence 27. Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation 58. Acute Papillary Muscle Rupture 59. Systolic Anterior Motion of the Mitral Valve Causing Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction after Mitral Valve Repair 60. Systolic Anterior Motion of the Mitral Valve after Mitral Valve Replacement 61. Marfan's Syndrome 62. Thrombosis of a Bioprosthetic Mitral Valve 63. Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis and Sever Pulmonary Hypertension 64. Mitral Valve Endocarditis 65. Mild Mitral Stenosis Following Percutaneous 66. Prosthetic Paravalvular Leak 67. Mitral Annular Calcification 68. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Infective Endocarditis 69. Double Orifice Mitral Valve Section VI: The Left Ventricle 70. Post-infarction Ventricular Septal Defect 71. bullet in the Heart 72. Ventricular Mass after Lung transplant 73. Anomalous Papillary Muscle Masquerading as a Tumor 74. Pseudoaneurysm 75. Traumatic Ventricular Septal Defect and Mitral Valve Perforation 76. Coronary Fistula and Traumatic Ventricular Septal Defect 77. Ventricular Septal Defect after a Myocardial Infarction 78. Left Ventricular Pseudoaneurysm 79. Biventricular Aneurysm Section VII: Cardiomyopathies 80. Idiopathic Hypertrophic Sub-Aortic Stenosis 81. Diastolic Dysfunction 82. Dilated Cardiomyopathy-Batista Repair 83. HIV -Associated Cardiomyopathy 84. Radiation-induced Heart Disease 85. Endomyocardial Fibrosis 86. Postpartum Cardiomyopathy 87. Cardiac Amyloidosis 88. Non-Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy 89. Left Ventricular Dysfunction after Surgery in Marfan's Syndrome 90. Left Ventricular Thrombus 91. left Ventricular Aneurysm and Thrombus 92. Chaga's Disease 93. Non-surgical Septal ablation in Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy 94. Restrictive Cardiomyopathy 95. Apical variant of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy 96. Complications of Left Ventricular Assist Device-right Ventricular Failure 97. Complications of left Ventricular Assist Device-left Ventricular Thrombosis Section VIII: The Aortic Valve 98. Bicuspid Aortic Valve 99. Moderate Aortic Regurgitation 100. Aortic Valve Fibroelastoma 101. Radiation-induced Valvular Disease 102. Aortic Valve Ring Abscess 103. Calcific Aortic Stenosis 104. Aortic Valve Endocarditis and Annular Abscess 105. Sever Aortic Regurgitation in a Hypertensive Patient 106. Aorta to Left Atrial Fistula 107. Congenitally Dysplastic Aortic Valve 108. Aortic Valve Prolapse 109. Endocarditis of an Aortic Valve Bioprosthesis 110. Sub-aortic Stenosis 111. Aortic Valve Endocarditis 112. Unicuspid Aortic Valve Section IX: The Aorta 113. Coronary Artery Embolism 114. Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm 115. Stab Wound to the Heart 116. Aortic Disease-descending and Abdominal 117. Pseudoaneurysm of the Aorta after Aorta Valve Reoperation 118. Marfan's Syndrome and Acute Aortic Dissection 119. Kawasaki's Disease 120. Ruptured Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm 121. Mycotic Aneurysm of the Ascending Aorta 122. Aortic Dissection 123. Prostoperative Tamonade after Aortic Valve Replacement 124. Aortic Atheroma 125. Acquired Supravalvular Aortic Stenosis 126. Dilated Ascending Aorta and Descending Aortic Plaque 127. Coarctation of the Aorta 128. Chronic Aortic Dissection 129. Traumatic Aortic Rupture Section X: Congenital Disease 130. Perimembranous Ventricular Septal Defect 131. Eisenmenger Ventricular Septal Defect 132. Holt-Oram Heart-hand Syndrome 133. Complete Atrioventricular Canal 134. Ventricular Septal Defect with Retained Pulmonary Artery band 135. Brock Procedure for Tetralogy of Fallot 136. Sub-aortic Stenosis after Repair of an Atrioventricular Canal Defect 137. Aorto-pulmonary Window 138. Tetralogy of Fallot 139. Anomalous Coronary Artery from Main Pulmonary Artery 140. Scimitar Syndrome 141. Patent Ductus Arteriosus in a Newborn 142. Patent Ductus Arteriosus 143. Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries 144. Transposition of the Great Vessels: Mustard Intra-atrial Repair 145. Situs Inversus, Double-outlet right ventricle, Atrial and Ventricular Septal Defects 146. repaired Double-outlet Right Ventricle 147. Tricuspid Atresia 148. Complex Cyanotic Congenital Heart Disease 149. Uniatrioventricular Connection 150. Truncus Arteriosus Heart Section III: The Pulmanory Artery Section IV: The Left Atrium Section V: The Mitral Valve Section VI: The Left Ventricle Section VII: Cardiomyopathies Section VIII: The Aortic Valve Section IX: The Aorta Section X: Congenital Disease