This official textbook of the European Association of Echocardiography (EAE) serves the educational requirements of cardiologists and all clinical medical professionals, underpinning the structural training in the field in accordance with EAE aims and goals, and reflecting the EAE Core Syllabus. Published in partnership with the European Society of Cardiology, and written by a team of expert authors from across Europe, it is a valuable resource to support not only those with an interest in echocardiography but specifically those seeking the information needed for accreditation and training through the EAE.

2. Contents
Contributors vii 12. Ischaemic heart disease 183
Petros Nihoyannopoulos and Fausto Pinto
Symbols and abbreviations ix
13. Stress echocardiography 197
1. The general principles of echocardiography 1
Lauro Cortigiani and Eugenio Picano
MadalinaG arbi
14 Valvular heart disease
2. Transthoracic echocardiography 15
Miguel Ángel García Fernández and 14a Aortic valve disease 219
José Juan Gómez de Diego Raphael Rosenhek, Robert Feneck,
and Fabio Guarracino
3. Three dimensional echocardiography 35
M. Monaghan and S. Adhya 14b Mitral valve disease 237
Patrizio Lancellotti, Julien Magne, Kim
4. Transoesophageal and intracardiac
O’Connor, and Luc A. Pierard
echocardiography 45
Christian Rost and Frank A. Flachskampf 14c Tricuspid and pulmonary valves 255
Ashraf M. Anwar and Folkert Jan ten Cate
5. Non-invasive haemodynamic assessment 63
Andrea Kallmeyer, José Luis Zamorano, 15. Replacement heart valves 271
G. Locorotondo, Madalina Garbi, José Juan Gómez John B. Chambers and Jean-Louis Vanoverschelde
de Diego and Miguel Ángel García Fernández
16. Infective endocarditis 289
6. Quantification of left ventricular function Gilbert Habib and Franck Thuny
and synchrony using tissue Doppler,
17. Cardiomyopathies 303
strain imaging, and speckle tracking 81
G. Karatasakis and G.D. Athanassopoulos
Jens-Uwe Voigt
18. Cardiac involvement in systemic
7. Contrast echocardiography 99
diseases 327
L. Galiuto, R. Senior, and H. Becher
Andreas Hagendorff
8. Assessment of systolic function 117
19. Pericardial disease 345
Alexandra Gonçalves, Pedro Marcos-Alberca,
Peter Sogaard, and José Luis Zamorano Bernard Cosyns and Bernard Paelinck
9. Assessment of diastolic function 135 20. Tumours and masses 355
MaurizioG alderisi and Sergio Mondillo M.J. Andrade
10. Assessment of left atrial function 151 21. Diseases of the aorta 371
RíoA guilar-Torres Arturo Evangelista and T. González-Alujas
11. Assessment of right heart function 22. Adult congenital heart disease 387
and haemodynamics 165 G.P. Diller, A. Kempny, and H. Baumgartner
Luigi P. Badano and Denisa Muraru

3. vi contents
23. Perioperative echocardiography 413 25. Vascular imaging 447
R. Feneck and F. Guarracino Mónica M. Pedro and N. Cardim
24. Echocardiography in the emergency room 431 26. Quality assurance in echocardiography 463
Aleksandar N. Neškovic and
´ K.F. Fox and B.A. Popescu
Andreas Hagendorff
Index 469