3rd Edition

Making Sense of Echocardiography A Hands-on Guide

By Andrew R. Houghton Copyright 2024
    324 Pages 143 Color & 7 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    324 Pages 143 Color & 7 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    324 Pages 143 Color & 7 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    Echocardiography is one of the most useful and powerful diagnostic tools in the assessment of cardiac structure and function. It remains a rapidly expanding modality, with new techniques constantly developing and maturing. Building on the success of the second edition, the third edition of Making Sense of Echocardiography: A Hands-on Guide provides a timely overview for those learning echocardiography for the first time as well as an accessible handbook that experienced sonographers can refer to. The strong clinical focus and concentration on real-life scenarios make this book relevant in day-to-day practice. Key updates for this edition include the latest guidelines for the evaluation of diastolic function and pulmonary hypertension, and fully updated reference intervals throughout.

    Key Features

    • Covers not only the fundamentals of echocardiography including ultrasound physics, but also new technologies such as 3D echocardiography
    • Provides a comprehensive approach for the echo trainee and serves as a useful reference for more seasoned echocardiographers
    • Incorporates current guidelines and reference intervals throughout

    Preface
    Acknowledgements
    Author biography
    Acronyms and abbreviations

    Part 1 Essential principles
    1. History of echocardiography
    2. Cardiac anatomy and physiology
    3. Physics and instrumentation
    4. Doppler physics
    5. Myocardial mechanics
    6. Service provision
    Part 2 Cardiac imaging techniques
    7. The standard transthoracic echo study
    8. Transoesophageal echo
    9. Stress echo
    10. Contrast echo
    11. Tissue Doppler imaging
    12. Speckle tracking
    13. 3D echo
    14. Intravascular ultrasound and epicardial echo
    15. Alternative cardiac imaging techniques
    Part 3 Clinical cases
    16. The left ventricle and its systolic function
    17. Coronary artery disease and regional left ventricular function
    18. Left ventricular diastolic function
    19. The left atrium
    20. The aortic valve
    21. The mitral valve
    22. The right ventricle
    23. The right atrium
    24. The tricuspid valve
    25. The pulmonary valve
    26. Pulmonary hypertension
    27. Heart valve repair and replacement
    28. Endocarditis
    29. The cardiomyopathies
    30. The pericardium
    31. The aorta
    32. Cardiac masses
    33. Congenital heart disease
    34. Common echo requests

    Appendix - Echo resources
    Index

    Biography

    Andrew Houghton MA(Oxon), DM, BM BCh, FRCP (Lond) Consultant Cardiologist and Clinical Head of Echocardiography, Grantham and District Hospital, Grantham, Lincolnshire, UK

    Dr Andrew R. Houghton studied medicine at the University of Oxford and undertook postgraduate training in Nottingham and Leicester. He was appointed as consultant cardiologist at Grantham & District Hospital in Lincolnshire, UK, in 2002. His subspecialty interest is in non-invasive cardiac imaging, in particular echocardiography and cardiovascular MRI. He has been a member of the British Society of Echocardiography’s departmental accreditation committee, and a lecturer at BSE annual congresses.

    Dr Houghton has co-authored a number of textbooks, including Making Sense of the ECG (now in its fifth edition) and its companion volume Making Sense of the ECG: Cases for Self-Assessment, and is also a faculty member at the Medmastery online medical education website. Making Sense of the ECG has won several awards, including the Royal Society of Medicine’s Richard Asher prize and the British Medical Association’s Student Textbook Award, while Making Sense of Echocardiography was highly commended at the BMA Medical Book Awards.