The EACVI Textbook of Echocardiography

Description

This print edition of The EACVI Textbook of Echocardiography comes with a DVD and access to the online version on Oxford Medicine Online, for as long as the edition is published by Oxford University Press. By activating your unique access code, you can read and annotate the full text online, follow links from the references to primary research materials, and view, enlarge, and download all the figures and tables.

This fully updated second edition of the official textbook of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging serves the educational requirements of cardiologists and all clinical medical professionals in echocardiography. It is fully-aligned with EACVI goals and reflects the core European syllabus. 

Published in partnership with the European Society of Cardiology and written by a team of expert authors, this textbook is a valuable resource on echocardiography and for accreditation through the EACVI. 

With its thorough and instructive text complemented by more than 500 full colour images and 200 videos online and as a separate DVD, The EACVI Textbook of Echocardiography is a one-stop, authoritative resource on echocardiography.

• Evidence-based and corresponding with the latest EACVI recommendations, with emphasis on providing sound manangement and treatment guidance
• Fully illustrated with 500 colour images
• Includes access to the online version on Oxford Medicine Online, 200 videos also on a DVD
• Supported by online content on the ESC learning platform with CME questions for self-assessment 

Table of Contents

Basic Instrumentation and Modalities
1: General principles of echocardiography, Madalina Garbi, Jan d'Hooge and Evgeny Sholnik
2: Transthoracic echocardiography/M-Mode and 2D echocardiography, Miguel Ángel García Fernández and José Juan Gómez de Diego
3: Doppler echocardiography, Jaroslaw Kasprzak, Ruxandra Jurcut, & Anita Sadeghpour
4: Deformation echocardiography, Matteo Cameli, Partho Sengupta, & Thor Edvardsen
5: Storage and report, Steven Droogmans, Bernard Cosyns & Alessandro Salustri
6: Transoesophageal echocardiography, Frank A.Flachskampf, Mauro Pepi, & Silvia Gianstefani
7: 3D Echocardiography, Luigi P. Badano, Roberto Lang & Alexandra Gonçalves
8: Contrast echocardiography, Asrar Ahmed, Leda Galiuto, Mark Monaghan, & Roxy Senior
9: Hand-held echocardiography, Denis Pellerin, Nuno Cardim, & Christian Prinz
10: Intracardiac and intravascular echocardiography, Gilbert Habib, Carlo di Mario, & Guy Van Camp
11: Stress echocardiography: introduction and pathophysiology, Rosa Sicari & Raluca Dulgheru
12: Stress echocardiography: methodology, Maria João Andrade & Albert Varga
13: Stress echocardiography: imaging acquisition and modalities, Rosa Sicari, Edyta Ptonska, & Jorge Lowenstein
14: Stress echocardiography: diagnostic criteria and interpretation, Paolo Colonna, Monica Alcantara, & Katsu Tanaka
15: Stress echocardiography: diagnostic and prognostic / Specific clinical subset, Luc A. Pierard & Lauro Cortigiani
16: Lung echocardiography, Luna Gargani & Marcelo-Haertel Miglioranza
17: Digital echocardiography laboratory, Reidar Bjørnerheim, Geneviève Derumeaux, & Andrzej Gackowski
Cardiac Morphology, Haemodynamics and Physiology
18: Left ventricle: morphology and geometry, Peng-Fei Zhang, Yun Zhang, & Siew Yen Ho
19: Left ventricle: cardiac mechanics and LV performance, Erwan Donal, Seisyou Kou, & Partho Sengupta
20: Left ventricular systolic function, Bernard Cosyns, Krasimira Hristova, Hyung-Kwan Kim, & Otto Smiseth
21: LV diastolic function, Maurizio Galderisi & Jae Oh
22: Left atrium, Monica Rosca, Sergio Mondillo, & Kim O´Konnor
23: Right ventricle and pulmonary arterial pressure, Annemien E. van den Bosch, Luigi P. Badano & Julia Grapsa
24: Right atrium, Thierry Le Tourneau & Luis Caballero
Disease echocardiographic assessment
25: Heart failure: LV systolic dysfunction, Erwan Donal & Elena Galli
26: Heart failure: LV dyssynchrony, Jens-Uwe Voigt, Peter Søgaard, & Emer Joyce
27: Heart failure: risk stratification, Marie Moonen & Nico Van de Veire
28: Heart failure: preserved LV ejection fraction, Johan De Sutter, Piotr Lipiec, & Christine Henri
29: Ischaemic heart disease: acute coronary syndromes, George D. Athanassopoulos, Krassimira Hristrova, & Alessandro Salustri
30: Ischemic heart disease: stable coronary artery disease - Coronary artery anomalies, Eugenio Picano, Fausto Pinto, & Blazej Michalski
31: Heart valve disease: aortic valve disease, Cristina Basso, Gaetano Thiene, & Siew Yen Ho
32: Heart Valve disease: aortic stenosis, Helmut Baumgartner, Stefan Orwat, Leyla Elif Sade, & Javier Bermejo
33: Heart valve disease: aortic regurgitation, Christophe Tribouilloy, Patrizio Lancellotti, Ferande Peters, José Juan Gómez de Diego, & Luc A. Pierard
34: Mitral valve disease: mitral valve anatomy and morphology, Giovanni La Canna
35: Mitral valve disease: mitral stenosis, Bogdan A. Popescu, Shantanu P. Sengupta, Niloufar Samiei, and Anca D. Mateescu
36: Mitral valve disease: mitral regurgitation, Patrizio Lancellotti, Raluca Dulgher, Mani Vannanu, & Kiyoshi Yoshida
37: Tricuspid valve disease, Denisa Muraru, Ashraf M. Anwar, & Jae-Kwan Song
38: Pulmonary valve disease, Werner Budts & Owen Miller
39: Multivalvular disease and others, Philippe Unger & Gerald Maurer
40: Prosthetic valves, John Chambers & Philippe Pibarot
41: Endocarditis, Gilbert Habib, Franck Thuny, Guy Van Camp & Simon Matskeplishvili
42: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, Nuno Cardim, Denis Pellerin, & Filipa Xavier Valente
43: Dilated cardiomyopathy, Fausto Rigo, Covadonga Fernández-Golfin, & Bruno Pinamonti
44: Restrictive cardiomyopathy / arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, Perry Elliott, Kristina Haugaa, Pio Caso, & Maja Cikes
45: Isolated ventricular non-compaction, Frank Weidemann, Gilbert Habib, & Clara Vazquez
46: Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy, Rodolfo Citro, Laurent Davin, & Daniel Rodriguez Muñoz
47: Familial cardiomyopathies, Fausto Rigo, Covadonga Fernández-Golfin, & Bruno Pinamonti
48: RV dilatation and dysfunction, Petros Nihoyannopoulos, André La Gerche, & Gustavo Restrepo
49: Pericardial disease, Bernard Paelinck & Pedro Gutierrez Fajardo
Disease echocardiographic assessment
50: Cardiac transplant patients, Río Aguilar Torres, Luigi P. Badano, & Dimitrios Tsiapras
51: Cardiac masses and potential sources of emboli, Nadia Benyounes, Mauro Pepi, Roberta Esposito, Carmen Ginghina, & Ariel Cohen
52: Cardiac tumours/other non-neoplastic intracardiac masses / Extracardiac, Maria Joao Andrade, Jadranka Separovic, & Ricardo Ronderos
53: Diseases of the aorta, Arturo Evangelista, Eduardo Bossone, & Alain Nchimi
54: Systemic disease and other conditions: introduction, Andreas Hagendorff
55: Athlete's Heart, Antonello D'Andrea, André La Gerche, & Christine Selton-Suty
56: Systemic disease and other conditions: heart during pregnancy, Agnes Pasquet, Marcia Barbosa, & Jo Nan Liao
57: Disease with main influence on cardiovascular system, Edyta Plonska-Gosciniak, Michal Ciurzynski, Marcin Fijalkowski, Piotr Gosciniak, Piotr Szymanski,Tomasz Pasierski, Daniel Rodriguez Muñoz, & Jose Luis Zamorano
58: Disease with main influence on heart valves, Andreas Hagendorff, Elie Chammas, & Mohammed Rafique Essop
59: Disease with main influence on myocardium / pericardium, Andreas Hagendorff & Laura Ernande
60: Disease with main influence on right ventricular function, Damien Voilliot, JD Kasprzak, & Eduardo Bossone
61: Adult congenital heart disease, Giovanni Di Salvo, Werner Budts, & Owen Miller
Specific clinical context / environment
62: Acute cardiac care, Susanna Price, Roxy Senior, & Bogdan A. Popescu
63: Cardiac rhythm disorders: atrial fibrillation, Kristina H. Haugaa, Francesco Faletra, & João L. Cavalcante
64: Cardiac oncology, Maurizio Galderisi, Juan Carlos Plana, Thor Edvardsen, & Patrizio Lancellotti
65: Interventional echocardiography, Alejandra Carbonell San Román & Jose Luis Zamorano
66: Peri-operative echocardiography, Patrick Wouters, Fabio Guarracino, & Manfred Seeberger
Miscellaneous
67: Coronary artery imaging, Andreas Hagendorff, Ivan Stankovic, & Masaaki Takeuchi
68: Vascular echo imaging, Muriel Sprynger, Iana Simova, & Scipione Carerj
69: Competence and certification, Alexandros S. Stefanidis & Bogdan A. Popescu
70: Training for emergency echocardiography, Aleksandar N. Neskovic
71: Laboratory accreditation, Petros Nihoyannopoulos & Luna Gargani
72: Quality assurance in echocardiography, Kevin Fox & Henri Skinner

Author Information

Edited by Patrizio Lancellotti, University Hospital Sart Tilman, Liege, Belgium, José Luis Zamorano, Department of Cardiology, Gilbert Habib, Department of Cardiology Marseilles, France, and Luigi Badano, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Padua, Italy

Patricio Lancellotti is head of the intensive care cardiology unit at the University of Liège Hospital Center and Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Liège. His research has led to significant progress in the care of patients suffering from functional mitral insufficiency.

José Luis Zamorano is Professor of Medicine at the University Complutense in Madrid and Director of the Cardiovascular Institute at the University Clinic San Carlos, Madrid. He is President Elect of the European Association of Echocardiography (EAE) and President of the Working Group on Non-invasive Diagnostic Imaging of the Spanish Society of Cardiology.

Professor Habib is currently Chair of the Cardiology Department at La Timone Marseille in France. He is also President of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging 2014-2016 and member of the board of the ESC. He has been involved in more than 200 publications in international peer-reviewed journals.

Luigi Badano currently serves as the director of the echocardiography laboratory and a professor of cardiovascular imaging at the University of Padua School of Medicine, Padua, Italy. He is a member of the Italian Society of Cardiology, Italian Society of Cardiovascular Ultrasound, European Society of Cardiology, European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging, American College of Cardiology and the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE), and a fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and the American College of Cardiology. He is past-president of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging. He is honorary member of the Hungarian, Romanian and Korean societies of cardiology and of the British society of echocardiography. In 2013, he was awarded with the silver medal of the European Society of Cardiology for his clinical and research activity and his commitment as President of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging.

Section editors

Professor Bernard Cosyns, Department of Cardiology, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

Professor Thor Edvardsen, Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Professor Maurizio Galderisi, Laboratory of Standard and Advanced Echocardiography, Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, Federico II University Hospital, Naples, Italy

Professor Bogdan A. Popescu, Department of Cardiology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila, Euroecolab, Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases Prof Dr CC Iliescu, Bucharest, Romania