Covers all main diseases, including adult congenital heart disease, with a problem-based approach to echocardiography. Reviews basic principles for evaluation, the echocardiographic approach, differential diagnosis, limitations, and technical considerations for each disease, as well as alternate diagnostic approaches. Enables you to perform procedures correctly and recognize inadequate data with coverage of technical details for data acquisition and limitations of each echocardiographic approach. Emphasizes alternative diagnostic approaches to help you solve clinical problems when echocardiography does not provide a definitive answer. Includes The Echo Exam (a brief summary of how to do it, the necessary calculations, diagnosis and examples) as an appendix for review and reinforcement. Features a new chapter dedicated to intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography, cross-referenced with other chapters, for coverage of this important and difficult technique. Covers myocardial mechanics-strain rate imagine, speckle tracking, and synchrony - in the advanced modalities, in addition to contrast and 3D echo. Integrates TTE and TEE images more explicitly into each chapter to discuss the two techniques in parallel and give you clear explanations of the pros, cons, and the role of each modality in patient evaluation. Includes new digital images throughout - with more TEE, more echocardiograms, and color diagrams-so you can easily identify cardiac problems. Presents the latest ASE recommendations for chamber quantification, including updated tables of normal measurements, for convenient reference. Provides online access to the full text of the book through Expert Consult functionality.