This volume is a step-by-step educational echocardiography textbook from basic principles to advanced concepts. It is designed to rationalise and instruct readers on the rapid development in echocardiographic techniques, including real-time three-dimensional echocardiography, strain/strain rate imaging, and speckle tracking, which have greatly expanded the capabilities of cardiac imaging while overshadowing the importance of the basics of echocardiography.

Case-Based Textbook of Echocardiography offers a comprehensive review of echocardiography from basic skills to advanced techniques, including practical information from recently published ASE/EACVI guidelines and explanatory movies and figures. Providing balance between the science and clinical pearls, it is of great interest for all trainee cardiologists and echocardiographers and helpful to all clinicians in cardiology, internal medicine, cardiac surgery, interventio

nal cardiology and paediatric cardiology.

Basic principles  of echocardiography

Transthoracic echocardiography, Standard windows and echocardiographic views, appropriateness criteria, and clinical implications
Transesophageal echocardiography Standard windows and echocardiographic views, appropriateness criteria, and clinical implications
Sedation in Transesophageal echocardiography
Basic of 3D echocardiography, clinical use in daily practice
Basic principles of fetal echocardiography
Handheld echocardiography and Pocket-size imaging devices
Pitfalls and artefacts
Contrast Echocardiography
Chamber quantification
Echocardiography evaluation of LV systolic function, systolic  dysfunction and ventricular dyssynchrony
Echocardiographic assessment of Myocardial Mechanics: Velocity, Strain, Strain rate ant Torsion
Echocardiographic evaluation of the diastolic function and dysfunction
Echocardiographic evaluation of the right heart
How to assess the left and right atria in clinical practice
Useof echocardiography in hypertension
Echocardiographic assessment of native valvular heart disease
Echocardiographic assessment of prosthetic valves
Infective Endocarditis
Pericardial disease
Dilated cardiomyopathy and Myocarditis
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathies
Restrictive cardiomyopathies
Unclassified cardiomyopathies (ARVC, LVNC)
Echocardiography in coronary artery disease
Echocardiographic assessment of Coronary Blood Flow
Stress echocardiography
Echocardiography evaluation of congenital heart disease
Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography
The Role of Echocardiography in Mitral Valve Repair
Intraprocedural transesophageal echocardiography
Echocardiography in the critical care
Echocardiography and Pulmonary Hypertension
Heart transplantation
Echocardiography in Patients With Ventricular Assist Devices
Cardiac masses and tumors
Cardiac source of emboli
Disease of the aorta
Role of echocardiography in arrhythmia
Echocardiographyin systemic diseases
Echocardiography End-Stage Renal Disease
Echocardiography in Pregnancy
Echocardiography in Trauma
Aging changes in Echocardiography
Echocardiography in Obesity
Normal values and Useful formulas in echocardiography.