Case-Based Textbook of Echocardiography and Cardiac MRI

This significantly expanded edition serves as a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to cardiovascular imaging using echocardiography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), covering everything from basic principles to advanced techniques. It provides a unique platform for readers to familiarize themselves with and compare the strengths and clinical utility of each modality in structural heart disease, adult congenital heart disease and valvular heart disease.
Case-Based Textbook of Echocardiography and Cardiac MRI offers a comprehensive review of both modalities from the acquisition of basic skills through to advanced techniques, including practical information from recently published ASE/EACVI guidelines, explanatory loops and figures, and an extensive selection of self-assessment questions. Providing balance between the science and clinical pearls, it is of great interest for all trainee cardiologists and cardiac imagers, and is helpful to all clinicians in cardiology, internal medicine, cardiac surgery, interventional cardiology and pediatric cardiology.
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List of contents

1 Basic Principles.- Basic Principles of Echocardiography.- Transthoracic Echocardiography, Standard Window and Echocardiographic Views.- Transesophageal echocardiography.- Artificial Intelligence and Echocardiography.- Sedation for Transesophageal Echocardiography and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging.- Basics of 3D Echocardiography; Clinical Use in Daily Practice.- Basic of cardiac MRI, Imaging sequences.- Basic Principles of Fetal Echocardiography.- Handheld Echocardiography.- Artifacts and Pitfalls of Echocardiography.- Contrast Echocardiography.- II Cardiac Size and Function.- Summary of Cardiac Chamber Quantification in Adults by Echocardiography.- Echocardiography Evaluation of Left Ventricular Systolic Function, Systolic Dysfunction, and Ventricular Dyssynchrony.- Echocardiographic Assessment of Myocardial Mechanics: Velocity, Strain, Strain Rate and Torsion.- Echocardiographic Evaluation of the Diastolic Function and Dysfunction.- Right Heart Disease.- III Valvular heart diseases.- Echocardiographic Assessment of Mitral Valve Disease.- Echocardiographic Assessment of Aortic Valve Disease.- Echocardiographic Assessment of Tricuspid and Pulmonary Valves.- Valvular heart diseases and Cardiac MRI.- Echocardiography in Prosthetic Heart Valves.- Infective Endocarditis.- IV Myocardial Disease.- Echocardiography in Hypertension.- Echocardiography in Dilated Cardiomyopathy and Myocarditis.- CMR in Dilated CM and Myocarditis.- Role of Echocardiography in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.- Role of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.- Echocardiography in Restrictive Cardiomyopathy.- Cardiac MRI in in Restrictive Cardiomyopathy – Amyloidosis.- Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy: Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy and Left Ventricular Non-Compaction Cardiomyopathy.- Cardiac MRI in unclassified Cardiomyopathies: Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy (ARVC) and Left Ventricular Non-Compaction Cardiomyopathy (LVNC).- V Pericardial Disease.- Echocardiography in Pericardial Diseases.- Cardiac MRI in Pericardial Disease.- VI Coronary Artery Disease.- Echocardiography in the Setting of Coronary Artery Disease and Myocardial Infarction.- Echocardiographic Assessment of Coronary Blood Flow.- Stress Echocardiography.- Myocardial ischemia in Stress Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging.- Delayed enhancement and viability assessment in Cardiac MRI.- VII Echocardiography and Therapeutic Intervention.- Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography.- The Role of Echocardiography in Mitral Valve Repair.- Intraprocedural Transesophageal Echocardiography.- VIII Adult Congenital Heart Disease and Pulmonary vasculature.- Echocardiography and Pulmonary Hypertension.- Hyperpolarized Xenon MRI: Technique and Applications.- Echocardiography in Patients with Adult Congenital Heart Disease.- Cardiac MRI in Adult with Congenital Heart Disease: A Case Based Approach.- IX Advanced Heart Failure and  Critical Care Unit.- Echocardiography in Heart Transplantation.- Echocardiography in Patients with Durable Ventricular Assist Devices.- X Aorta , Cardiovascular and Intracardiac Disease.- Echocardiography in the Critical Care Unit.- Cardiac Masses and Tumors.- Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging of Cardiac Masses.- Evaluation of Cardiac Sources of Emboliby Echocardiography.- Echocardiography and Diseases of the Aorta.- Role of Echocardiography in Arrhythmia.- XI Cardiovascular diseases in special population and systemic diseases.- Echocardiography in Systemic Diseases.- CMR and COVID-19.- Role of Echocardiography in Cardio-oncology Patients.- Echocardiography in End-Stage Renal Disease.- Echocardiography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Pregnancy.- Echocardiography in Trauma.- Aging Changes in Echocardiography.- Echocardiography in Obesity.- XII Practical Formula.- Schematic CMR Formulas and Points.

About the author

Dr. Anita Sadeghpour, MD, FACC, FASE, is the founding and lead editor of this textbook, Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at Georgetown University, and an expert cardiac imager working at MedStar Cardiovascular Core lab at MedStar Health, with over 20 years of academic and clinical experience. She is a level III and board-certified in advanced echocardiography, cardiac imaging, and Cardiac CT.
 
Dr. Sadegpour is a nationally and internationally recognized expert who has authored over 120 peer-reviewed publications and four textbooks on structural heart disease, adult congenital heart disease, and cardiovascular imaging, including the first edition of "Case-Based Textbook of Echocardiography." She has been a frequently invited speaker and panelist at international meetings and has been involved in several ASE committees, including the Guidelines and Standards Committee. Dr. Sadeghpour brings a comprehensive, clinically grounded perspective to advancing cardiovascular imaging education and practice.
 
Dr. Azin Alizadehasl, FACC, FASE is a professor of Cardiology, Echo-Cardiologist and Cardio-Oncologist at Rajaie Cardiovascular Medical & Research Institute, Tehran, Iran. She is pioneer and head of Cardio-Oncology department, Research Center and Association in Iran and being involved in the Echocardiography and Cardio-Oncology fellowship training. Also she is President of international Cardio-Oncology Society- Iran Chapter and member of Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences too.
 
She is the author of many national and international cardiology, Cardio-Oncology and echocardiography original research articles and also many books and textbooks with valuable publishing companies including the first edition of "Case-Based Textbook of the Echocardiography."
 
Dr. Anita Kelsey, MD, MBA is the Vice Chief of Academic Affairs and Operations at Duke University Health System. She has more than 20 years of experience in Cardiology centered around Echocardiography, cardiovascular education, and heart disease in women. She began the interventional echo program at Saint Francis Hospital in Hartford CT and built an accredited school of cardiac sonography in CT and at Duke University School of Medicine. Dr. Kelsey serves as Chair of the Board of the Joint Commission for Accreditation of Cardiovascular Technical Schools. She has designed an innovative echocardiographic reporting tool structured to improve compliance with accreditation guidelines and reduce physician burnout. Kelsey has served as associate program director for CV fellowship program in CT, councilor for the CT Council of the American College of Cardiology, and past President of the CT Board of the American Heart Association. Kelsey recently returned to Duke where she completed her MBA and is working to improve appropriateness, delivery and measurement of noninvasive imaging quality and education in the Duke University Health System. She remains active in care of the CV patient and supports the cardiac imaging and structural heart program at Duke System.
 
 

Summary

A step-by-step educationally orientated echo textbook  with case-based learning
Comprehensive coverage of all the latest technologies and guidelines on their use
Contains basic and advanced echo images and movies including real-time three-dimensional TEE, Speckle tracking and Intraoperative images

Product details

• Assisted by: Azin Alizadehasl (Editor), Anita M. Kelsey (Editor), Anita M Kelsey (Editor), Anita Sadeghpour (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Mixed media product
• Release: 08.01.2026
• EAN: 9783032022684
• ISBN: 978-3-032-02268-4
• No. of pages: 780
• Illustrations: IV, 780 p. 861 illus., 632 illus. in color., schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, farbige Illustrationen
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Radiology, Bildgebende Verfahren, ULTRASOUND, Cardiology, MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, cardiac MRI, Transesophageal echocardiography, Transthoracic Echocardiography, Case Based learning, Doppler echocardiography, Advanced Echocardiography, Intraoperative Echocardiography