Echocardiography (3rd Ed.).

Abstract

The third edition of this text is a worthy successor to those which preceded it. This new edition has undegone extensive revision and reorganization. Many chapters have been rewritten or incorporated into others. The conception of echocardiography that emerges is of a more utilitarian cardiac diagnostic tool with less emphasis placed on its use for the diagnosis of specific entities per se. This is reflected in the inclusion of such new chapters as those on hemodynamic information derived from echocardiography and findings with altered electrical activity. There are really two textbooks here: a textbook of M-mode echocardiography and, through extensive expansion of content from previous editions, a textbook of two-dimensional echocardiography.