The EACVI Echo Handbook

Concise, fact-based and packed with images and illustrations The EACVI Echo Handbook is the perfect companion for making both every day and complex clinical decisions. Designed and written by leading experts in the field of echocardiography for use in the clinical arena, this practical handbook provides the necessary information for reviewing, or consulting while performing or reporting on an echo or making clinical decisions based on echo findings.

Disease-focussed and succinct, it covers the information needed to accurately perform and interpret echocardiograms, including how to set up the echo-machine to optimize an examination and how to perform echocardiographic disease assessment; the clinical indicators, procedures and contraindications.

Linked to EACVI recommendations and the EACVI Core Curriculum The EACVI Echo Handbook is an essential and easily accessible manual on using echocardiography for sonographers and trainee cardiologists that should never be left behind when performing an echocardiogram.

Patrizio Lancellotti, University of Liege, Hospital Sart Tilman, Belgium,Bernard Cosyns, Free University of Brussels, Belgium

Patrizio Lancellotti is Professor of Cardiology at Unviersity of Liege, CHU Sart Tilman, Liege, Belgium where he also acts as director of the Cardiogist Intensive Unit and is the head of the Echo Lab and Heart Valve Clinic. He is currently President of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging and has been a board memeber of the European Association of Echocardiography since 2004.

Bernard Cosyns is Professor of Cardiology at Free University of Brussels. Has been a memeber of the European Association of Echocardiography since 2004. He is currently an executive board member of the European Society of Cardiology.

Part 1. How to set up the echo-machine to optimize your examination
1. How to set up the echo-machine to optimize your examination
Part 2. The standard transthoracic echo-examination
2. 2D echo and M-Mode echo
3. Doppler echocardiography
4. Functional echocardiography
5. 3D echocardiography
6. Left ventricular opacification with contrast echocardiography
7. The storage and report
Part 3. The standard transoesophageal echocardiographic examination
8. Clinical indications, procedures and contraindications
9. 2D examination
10. Continuous, colour flow Doppler and pulse wave examination
11. 3D examination
12. The storage and report
Part 4. Assessment of left ventricular systolic dysfunction
13. Assessment of left ventricular systolic dysfunction
Part 5. Assessment of diastolic function / dysfunction
14. Assessment of diastolic function / dysfunction
Part 6. Ischaemic heart disease
15. Ischaemic heart disease
16. Chronic ischaemic cardiomyopathy
17. Coronary arteries
Part 7. Heart valve disease
18. Aortic stenosis
19. Pulmonary stenosis
20. Subvalvular and supravalvular stenosis
21. Mitral stenosis
22. Tricuspid stenosis
23. Aortic regurgitation
24. Mitral regurgitation
25. Tricuspid regurgitation
26. Pulmonary regurgitation
27. Multivalvular disease
28. Prosthetic valves
29. Endocarditis
Part 8. Cardiomyopathies
30. Dilated cardiomyopathy
31. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
32. Restrictive cardiomyopathy
33. Myocarditis
34. Tako-Tsubo
35. Arrythmogenic RV cardiomyopathy
Part 9. Right heart function and pulmonary artery pressure
36. RV function
37. Volume overload
38. Pressure overload
Part 10. Pericardial disease
39. Pericardial effusion
40. Constrictive pericarditis
41. Pericardial cysts
42. Congenital absence of pericardium
Part 11. Cardiac transplants
43. Cardiac transplants
Part 12. Critically ill patients
44. Critically ill patients
Part 13. Congenital Heart Disease
45. Pathological intercavity communications
46. Persistent left superior vena cana
47. Ebstein's anomaly
48. Tetralogy of fallot after repair
49. Aortic coarctation
Part 14. Cardiac masses and potential sources of embolism
50. Vegetations
51. Thrombi
52. Cardiac tumours
53. Miscellaneous non-neoplastic intracardiac masses
54. Extracardiac masses
55. Structures mistaken for abnormal cardiac masses
Part 15. Diseases of the aorta
56. Aortic dissection
57. Thoracic aortic aneurysm
58. Traumatic injury of the aorta
59. Aortic atherosclerosis
60. Sinus of valsalva aneurysm
Part 16. Stress echo
61. Procedure guide
62. Dypiridamole
63. Adenosin
64. Diobutamine
65. Stress echo assessment of haemodynamics and valves
Part 17. Systemic disease and other conditions
66. Athlete's heart
67. Heart during pregnancy
68. Systemic diseases