Table of Contents

1. Defining the study
2. Left ventricular dimensions and function
3. Acute coronary syndrome
4. The right ventricle
5. Pulmonary pressure and pulmonary hypertension
6. The atria and atrial septum
7. Cardiomyopathies
8. Aortic valve disease
9. Mitral valve disease
10. Right-sided valve disease
11. Mixed valve disease
12. Prosthetic heart valves
13. Endocarditis
14. The Heart valve clinic
15. The aorta and dissection
16. Adult congenital disease
17. Pericardial disease
18. Masses
19. Echocardiography in acute and critical care medicine
20. General clinical requests (Murmur, heart failure, stroke, cardiac arrhythmia, hypertension, cocaine, HIV, neuromuscular diseases, inflammatory diseases, hypereosinophilia, drugs causing valvopathy, radiation)
21. Appendices

About the Author

Camelia Demetrescu BSc, MSc, HSSE, is Consultant Clinical Scientist in Cardiology, with specialist interest in echocardiography, at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, and a Fellow of the Academy forHealthcare Science.Sandeep S Hothi MA, PhD, FACC, FBSE, FESC, FRCP, is Consultant Cardiologist and Clinician-Scientist with expertise in advanced cardiac imaging, and holds an Honorary Senior Clinical Lectureship with the University of Birmingham.John Chambers MD, FRCP, FESC, is Emeritus Professor of Clinical Cardiology at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital and KCL and was previously Head of Adult Echocardiography there.