This best-selling and highly-praised book provides a practical and clinically useful introduction to echo. The author
explains the echo techniques available, what an echo can and cannot give, and, importantly, puts echo into a clinical
perspective. The sections are ordered with the techniques most often used to diagnose a particular clinical problem
explained first. The final chapter deals with special clinical situations.
1. What is echo?
2. Valves
3. Doppler ? velocities and pressures
4. Heart failure, myocardium and pericardium
5. Transoesophageal and stress echo and other echo techniques
6. Cardiac masses, infection and congenital abnormalities
7. Special situations and conditions