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Table of Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgements
Contributors
1 Fundamentals of Echocardiography
2 Conventional Echocardiography: Examination Procedure, Fundamental Measurement and Assessment Tasks
3 Conventional Doppler Echocardiography and Doppler Color Flow Imaging: Examination Procedure and Assessment Tasks
4 Computer-Assisted Cardiac Ultrasound Diagnosis
5 Interventional Echocardiography
6 Cardiac Ultrasound Diagnosis in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine
7 Perspectives of Therapeutic Cardiac Ultrasound
8 Congenital Heart Disease
9 Myocardial Disease
10 Valvular Heart Disease
11 Assessment of Prosthetic Valve Function
12 Infective Endocarditis
13 HIV-Related Heart Diseases
14 Ischemic Heart Disease
15 Intra- and Extracardiac Masses
16 Pericardial Disease
17 Ultrasound Assessment of the Transplanted Heart
18 Myocardial Hypertrophy and Hypertensive Heart Disease
19 Diseases of the Aorta
20 Cor Pulmonale and Pulmonary Embolism
21 State of the Art: The Heart Surgeon's Point of View
22 Conclusions
Index