The EACVI Echo Handbook

Patrizio Lancellotti is Professor of Cardiology at Unviersity of Liege, CHU Sart Tilman, Liege, Belgium where he also acts as director of the Cardiogist Intensive Unit and is the head of the Echo Lab and Heart Valve Clinic. He is currently President of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging and has been a board memeber of the European Association of Echocardiography since 2004.Bernard Cosyns is Professor of Cardiology at Free University of Brussels. Has been a memeber of the European Association of Echocardiography since 2004. He is currently an executive board member of the European Society of Cardiology.

• PART 1. HOW TO SET UP THE ECHO-MACHINE TO OPTIMIZE YOUR EXAMINATION; PART 2. THE STANDARD TRANSTHORACIC ECHO-EXAMINATION; PART 3. THE STANDARD TRANSOESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC EXAMINATION; PART 4. ASSESSMENT OF LEFT VENTRICULAR SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; PART 5. ASSESSMENT OF DIASTOLIC FUNCTION / DYSFUNCTION; PART 6. ISCHAEMIC HEART DISEASE; PART 7. HEART VALVE DISEASE; PART 8. CARDIOMYOPATHIES; PART 9. RIGHT HEART FUNCTION AND PULMONARY ARTERY PRESSURE; PART 10. PERICARDIAL DISEASE; PART 11. CARDIAC TRANSPLANTS; PART 12. CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS; PART 13. CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; PART 14. CARDIAC MASSES AND POTENTIAL SOURCES OF EMBOLISM; PART 15. DISEASES OF THE AORTA; PART 16. STRESS ECHO; PART 17. SYSTEMIC DISEASE AND OTHER CONDITIONS

The elaboration of individual thematic areas is excellent, integrating extensive insights from the expert literature in a logical and easily-intelligible way.