"This best-selling manual is a practical guide to the performance, interpretation, and clinical applications of echocardiography. It is written by recognized authorities at the Mayo Clinic and provides a concise, user-friendly summary of techniques, diagnostic criteria, and quantitative methods for both echocardiography and Doppler echocardiography. Discussion of each clinical problem also includes transesophageal echocardiography"--Provided by publisher.

Preceded by The echo manual / Jae K. Oh, James B. Seward, A. Jamil Tajik. 3rd ed. Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2006.

Transthoracic M-mode and two-dimensional echocardiography -- Transthoracic three-dimensional echocardiography -- Transesophageal echocardiography -- Doppler echocardiography and color flow imaging: comprehensive coninvasive hemodynamic assessment -- Tissue doppler and strain imaging -- Contrast echocardiography -- Quantification of left-sided cardiac chambers: mass, volumes, and ejection fraction -- Assessment of diastolic function -- Right heart assessment and pulmonary hypertension -- Cardiomyopathies -- Heart failure, LVAD, and transplantation -- Pericardial diseases -- Native valvular heart disease -- Prosthetic valve evaluation -- Infective endocarditis -- Stress echocardiography -- Coronary artery disease, acute myocardial infarction, Takotsubo syndrome -- Cardiac diseases due to systemic illness, genetics, or medication -- Cardiac tumors and masses -- Diseases of the aorta -- Congenital heart disease -- Interventional echocardiography -- Adult intraoperative echocardiography -- Intracardiac and intravascular ultrasound -- Vascular tonometry and imaging for cardiovascular risk assessment -- Handheld cardiac and point-of-care ultrasound -- Physics of ultrasound -- The future of echocardiography -- Artificial intelligence and echocardiography: current status and future directions.