Abstract Echocardiography maintains a central role in cardiovascular assessment despite recent advances in multimodality imaging. Some of the advantages of echocardiography include portability, rapid availability, low cost, safety and excellent…
Abstract Pulmonary embolism remains a cause of substantial morbidity and mortality. Echocardiography can be used for diagnosis, management, and assessment of prognosis in pulmonary embolism. Echocardiographic features of pulmonary embolisms…
Abstract Echocardiographic imaging to detect intracardiac thrombi is commonly done to identify source of systemic embolism and for risk assessment to prevent subsequent embolism. Additionally, intracardiac thrombi are occasionally identified…
Abstract This chapter provides a brief review of complex congenital heart disease. Included is a general approach to complex anatomy as well as examples of coarctation, patent ductus arteriosus, tetralogy…
Abstract Tumors within the heart and pericardium are often initially detected by cardiac ultrasound. This chapter reviews the primary and secondary tumors of the heart. Their characteristics, benign versus malignant…
Abstract Echocardiography is integral to the diagnosis and management of infective endocarditis (IE) because it can identify vegetations and complications associated with spreading infection, assess the severity of concomitant valve…
Abstract Chronic diseases of the aorta, especially aneurysms, are typically asymptomatic and are often only diagnosed when detected incidentally on imaging studies, such as a transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE), ordered for…
Abstract The field of echocardiography has evolved due to miniaturization, from increasing functionality of high end devices to the portability of hand held devices which have a footprint similar to…
Abstract Echocardiography is an essential imaging tool for structural heart disease interventions. This imaging modality is ideal for preprocedural planning, intraprocedural guidance and postprocedural assessment of every transcatheter intervention. This…
Abstract This chapter discusses cardiac involvement and its echocardiographic features with a number of systemic diseases including sarcoidosis, carcinoid syndrome, hypereosinophilic syndromes, thyroid disorders, hemochromatosis, muscular dystrophies, lysosomal storage diseases,…
