The ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Imaging third edition provides extensive coverage of all cardiovascular imaging modalities. Produced in collaboration with the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging with contributions from specialists across the globe and edited by a distinguished team of experts, it is a 'state of the art' clinically-orientated imaging reference.
Now fully revised and updated with the latest imaging techniques and technology and covering even more conditions than before, it not only discusses the principles of individual modalities but also clearly demonstrates the added value each technique can bring to the treatment of all cardiac diseases. Richly illustrated with colour figures, images, and tables and using a wealth of newly available evidence to link theory to practice, it demonstrates how these techniques can be used in the diagnosis of a range of cardiovascular diseases. Learning how to apply them in practice is made easy with free access to videos and imaging loops online.
Impressive in scope, The ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Imaging contains information on cutting-edge technical developments in echocardiography, CT, CMR and hybrid imaging and well imaging's current role in cardiac interventions, such as identifying cardiac structures, helping to guide procedures and exclude possible complications. The application of imaging modalities in conditions such as valvular and coronary heart disease, heart failure, cardiomyopathies, peri-myocardial disease, adult congenital heart disease and aortic disease, is also extensively considered.
From discussion on improved imaging techniques and advances in technology, to guidance and explanation of key practices and theories, this new edition of The ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Imaging is the ideal reference guide for cardiologists and radiologists alike.
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Jose Luis Zamorano, Head of Cardiology, University Hospital Ramon y Cajal,Jeroen Bax, Director of the Echo Lab, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands,Juhani Knuuti, Director of Cardiology, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland,Patrizio Lancellotti, Director of the Echo Lab, University of Li?ge Hospital, GIGA Cardiovascular Sciences, Department of Cardiology, CHU SartTilman, Li?ge, Belgium,Bogdan Popescu, Head of Cardiology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Carol Davila", Euroecolab, Emergency Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases "Prof. Dr. C. C. Iliescu", Bucharest, Romania,Fausto Pinto, - Heart and Vascular Dpt, University Hospital Santa Maria, CHULN, Centro Acad?mico de Medicina de Lisboa (CAML), Centro Cardiovascular da Universidade de Lisboa (CCUL), Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa (FMUL), Lisbon, Portugal,Udo Sechtem, Director of Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus and Cardiologicum,

Jos? Luis Zamorano is Professor of Medicine at the University Complutense in Madrid and Director of the Cardiovascular Institute at the University Clinic San Carlos, Madrid. His key research interests include ischaemic heart disease, cardiovascular risk factors and imaging modalities. He serves on numerous Editorial Boards, including the European Journal of Echocardiography, the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Heart Journal. He has authored over 200 articles for peer-reviewed journals.

Professor Bax is Director of Non-invasive Imaging and Director of the Echo Laboratory in the Department of Cardiology at Leiden University Medical Centre, The Netherlands. He is also Past-President of the European Society of Cardiology.

Professor Knuuti is Director of Cardiology at University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland. Professor Knuuti's main research field is noninvasive imaging especially using PET, SPECT, echocardiography, MRI and CT. The main research focus has been on cardiovascular diseases especially coronary artery disease and heart failure. In these conditions, the focus has been in understanding the physiology and pathophysiology of these diseases as well in developing new tests for diagnosis and therapy guidance. He has 823 publications, of which 553 are original articles and reviews.

Professor Patrizio Lancellotti is Head of the Intensive Care Cardiology unit at the University of Li?ge Hospital Center and Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Li?ge. His research has led to significant progress in the care of patients suffering from functional mitral insufficiency.

Bogdan A. Popescu is Professor of Cardiology at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Carol Davila" in Bucharest, Romania. He is head of the Third Cardiology Department and director of the echocardiography laboratory at the Institute of Cardiovascular Disease "Prof. C. C. Iliescu" in Bucharest. He published more than 180 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and more than 25 book chapters and books in cardiology and cardiac imaging. His main fields of research interest are on myocardial function/heart failure, valvular heart disease and cardiomyopathies.

Professor Pinto received MD and PhD from Lisbon School of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Portugal and completed fellowships at Santa Maria University Hospital (Lisbon, Portugal), and Stanford University Medical School (CA, USA), where he was Clinical Attending in the Echo lab. He is Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, Professor of Cardiology and Head of the Cardiovascular Department. He was President and founder of the European Association of Echocardiography (2003-2004) and President of the ESC (2014-2016). He is President Elect of WHF, FESC, FACC, FASA, FSCAI, FASE and Honorary Member of several international societies. He was Editor in Chief of the Portuguese Journal of Cardiology (1999-2015), and Member of the Editorial Board of several international journals. He published over 600 indexed articles and has presented over 1500 lectures/chairmanships at national and international meetings. His main areas of interest are cardiovascular imaging among others.

Professor Sechtem is the Project Coordinator for Research, Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus Stuttgart and also the Associate Professor of Medicine and Cardiology at the University of T?bingen

Section 1: Technical Aspects of imaging
1. Conventional Echocardiography - basic principles, Andreas Hagendorff, Stephan Stobe, and Bhupendar Tayal
2. Nuclear Cardiology (PET & SPECT) - basic principles, Danilo Negila, Riccardo Liga, Stephan Nekolla, Frank M. Bengel, Ornella Rimoldi, and Paolo G. Camici
3. Cardiac CT - basic principles, Gianluca Pontone and Filippo Cademartiri
4. CMR - basic principles, Jan Bogaert, Rolf Symons, and Jeremy Wright
5. Training and Competence in Cardiovascular Imaging, Kevin Fox and Marcelo Di Carli
Section 2: New technical developments in imaging techniques
6.1. Three-dimensional echocardiography, Silvia Gianstefani and Mark Monaghan
6.2. Assessment of myocardial function by speckle tracking echocardiography, Thor Edvardsen, Lars Gunnar Klaeboe, Ewa Szymczyk, and Jaroslaw Kasprzak
7. Contrast echocardiography, Roxy Senior, Harald Becher, Fausto Pinto, and Raj Khattar
8. Echocardiography in the cathlab: fusion imaging and use of intracardiac echocardiography, Covadonga Fernandez-Golfi and Jose Zamorano
9. Hybrid imaging: PET-CT and SPECT-CT, PET-MRI, Antti Saraste, Sharmila Dorbala and Juhani Knuuti
10. New technical developments in CT: anatomy, FFR and machine learning, Stephan Achenbach, Jonathan Leipsic, and James Min
Section 3: Valvular heart disease
11. Aortic valve stenosis, Philippe Pibarot, Helmut Baumgartner, Marie-Annick Clavel, Nancy C?t? and Stefan Orwat
12. Aortic valve regurgitation, Julien Magne and Patrizio Lancellotti
13. Mitral valve stenosis, Ferande Peters and Eric Brochet
14. Mitral valve regurgitation, Daniel Rodr?guez Mu?oz, Kyriakos Yiangou, and Jose Zamorano
15. Tricuspid and pulmonary valve disease, Denisa Muraru and Elif Sade
16. Multiple and mixed valvular heart disease, Philippe Unger and Madalina Garbi
17. Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography for valvular surgery, Youssef Malouf and Hector Michelena
18. Valvular prostheses, Luigi Badano and Denisa Muraru
19. Endocarditis, Daniel Rodr?guez and ?lvaro Marco
Section 4: Procedures in Intensive Cardiovascular Care Unit
20. Imaging guided transseptal puncture and transcatheter closure of patent ovale foramen/atrial septal defect, ventricular septal defect and paravalvular leaks, Itzhak Kronzon, Juan Manuel Monteagudo, Francesco Faletra, Priti Mehla and Muhamed Saric
21. Imaging for electrophysiological procedures, Louisa O'Neill, Iain Sim, John Whitaker, Steven Williams, Henry Chubb, P?l Maurovich-Horvat, Mark O'Neill and Reza Razavi
22. Transcatheter aortic valve implantation, Victoria Delgado, Jeroen Bax, and Arnold Ng
23. Transcatheter mitral valve interventions, Nina Wunderlich, Robert Siegel, Ronak Rajani, and Nir Flint
24. Transcatheter tricuspid valve repair/replacement, Rebecca Hahn
25. Transcatheter pulmonic valve replacement, Kuberan Pushparajah and Alessandra Frigiola
Section 5: Coronary artery disease
26. Echocardiography and detection of coronary artery disease, Thor Edvardsen, Marta Sitges, and Rosa Sicari
27. Nuclear cardiology and detection of coronary artery disease, Richard Underwood, James Stirrup, and Danilo Neglia
28. PET-CT and detection of coronary artery disease, Marcelo Di Carli
29. MCST and detection of coronary artery disease, Stephan Achenbach and Pal Maurovich-Horvat
30. CMR and detection of coronary artery disease, Eike Nagel, Juerg Schwitter, and Sven Plein
31. Imaging the vulnerable atherosclerotic plaqueImaging the vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque, David Newby, Marc Dweck, Jagat Narula, and Rong Bing
32. Imaging microvascular disease, Paolo Camici and Ornella Rimoldi
Section 6: Heart Failure
33. Evaluation of systolic LV function and LV mechanics, Rainer Hoffmann and Frank A.Flachskampf
34. Evaluation of diastolic LV function, Bogdan A. Popescu, Carmen C. Beladan and Maurizio Galderisi
35. Evaluation of RV function, Lawrence Rudski, Petros Nihoyannopoulos, and Sarah Blissett
36. Assessment of viability, Luc Pierard, Paola Gargiulo, Pasquale Perrone-Filardi, Bernhard Gerber, and Joseph Selvanayagam
37. Imaging cardiac innervation, Albert Flotats and Ignasi Carrio
38. Cardiac resynchronization therapy: selection of candidates, Victoria Delgado and Jens Uwe Voigt
39. Cardiac resynchronization therapy: optimization and follow-up, Marta Sitges and Erwan Donal
40. Echocardiography evaluation in extracorporeal support, Susanna Price and Alessia Gambaro
41. Cardio-oncology, Riccardo Asteggiano, Patrizio Lancellotti, Maurizio Galderisi, Stephane Edhery, and Marie Moonen
Section 7: Cardiomyopathies
42. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, Nuno Cardim, Alexandra Toste, and Robin Nijveldt
43. Infiltrative cardiomyopathy, Massimo Lombardi, Silvia Pica, Antonia Camporeale, Alessia Gimelli, and Dudley Pennell
44. Dilated cardiomyopathy, Upasana Tayal, Sanjay Prasad, Tjeerd Germans, and Albert van Rossum
45. Other genetic and acquired cardiomyopathies, Kristina Haugaa and Perry Elliott
Section 8: Peri-myocardial disease
46. Pericardial effusion and tamponade, Allan Klein, Bernard Cosyns, and Aldo Schenone
47. Constrictive pericarditis, Alida Caforio, Maurizio Galderisi, Massimo Imazio, Renzo Marcolongo, Yehuda Adler, and Ciro Santoro
48. Myocarditis, Ali Yilmaz, Heiko Marholdt, and Udo Sechtem
49. Cardiac masses and tumors, Teresa Lopez-Fernandez and Peter Buser
Section 9: Aortic disease: aneurysm and dissection
50. Gender considerations in acute coronary syndromes, Arturo Evangelista and Gisela Teixid?-Tur?
51. Role of CMR, Jose Rodriguez Palomares and Arturo Evangelista
52. Role of MSCT, Rocio Hinojar and Raimond Erbel
Section 10: Adult congenital heart disease
53. Role of echocardiography, Lindsay Smith, Mark K. Friedberg and Luc Mertens
54. Role of CMR and MSCT, Giovanni Di Salvo and Francesca Pluchinotta