Patricio Lancellotti is head of the intensive care cardiology unit at the University of Liège Hospital Center and Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Liège. His research has led to significant progress in the care of patients suffering from functional mitral insufficiency.

José 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. He is President Elect of the European Association of Echocardiography (EAE) and President of the Working Group on Non-invasive Diagnostic Imaging of the Spanish Society of Cardiology.

Professor Habib is currently Chair of the Cardiology Department at La Timone Marseille in France. He is also President of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging 2014-2016 and member of the board of the ESC. He has been involved in more than 200 publications in international peer-reviewed journals.

Luigi Badano currently serves as the director of the echocardiography laboratory and a professor of cardiovascular imaging at the University of Padua School of Medicine, Padua, Italy. He is a member of the Italian Society of Cardiology, Italian Society of Cardiovascular Ultrasound, European Society of Cardiology, European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging, American College of Cardiology and the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE), and a fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and the American College of Cardiology. He is past-president of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging. He is honorary member of the Hungarian, Romanian and Korean societies of cardiology and of the British society of echocardiography. In 2013, he was awarded with the silver medal of the European Society of Cardiology for his clinical and research activity and his commitment as President of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging.

Section editors

Professor Bernard Cosyns,
Department of Cardiology, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

Professor Thor Edvardsen,
Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Professor Maurizio Galderisi,
Laboratory of Standard and Advanced Echocardiography, Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, Federico II University Hospital, Naples, Italy

Professor Bogdan A. Popescu,
Department of Cardiology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila, Euroecolab, Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases Prof Dr CC Iliescu, Bucharest, Romania

Highly Commended in the Cardiology category of the British Medical Association Book Awards 2017.

• Basic Instrumentation and Modalities


• 1: Madalina Garbi, Jan d'Hooge and Evgeny Sholnik: General principles of echocardiography


• 2: Miguel Ángel García Fernández and José Juan Gómez de Diego: Transthoracic echocardiography/M-Mode and 2D echocardiography


• 3: Jaroslaw Kasprzak, Ruxandra Jurcut, and Anita Sadeghpour: Doppler echocardiography


• 4: Matteo Cameli, Partho Sengupta, and Thor Edvardsen: Deformation echocardiography


• 5: Steven Droogmans, Bernard Cosyns and Alessandro Salustri: Storage and report


• 6: Frank A.Flachskampf, Mauro Pepi, and Silvia Gianstefani: Transoesophageal echocardiography


• 7: Luigi P. Badano, Roberto Lang and Alexandra Gonçalves: 3D Echocardiography


• 8: Asrar Ahmed, Leda Galiuto, Mark Monaghan, and Roxy Senior: Contrast echocardiography


• 9: Denis Pellerin, Nuno Cardim, and Christian Prinz: Hand-held echocardiography


• 10: Gilbert Habib, Carlo di Mario, and Guy Van Camp: Intracardiac and intravascular echocardiography


• 11: Rosa Sicari and Raluca Dulgheru: Stress echocardiography: introduction and pathophysiology


• 12: Maria João Andrade and Albert Varga: Stress echocardiography: methodology


• 13: Rosa Sicari, Edyta Ptonska, and Jorge Lowenstein: Stress echocardiography: imaging acquisition and modalities


• 14: Paolo Colonna, Monica Alcantara, and Katsu Tanaka: Stress echocardiography: diagnostic criteria and interpretation


• 15: Luc A. Pierard and Lauro Cortigiani: Stress echocardiography: diagnostic and prognostic / Specific clinical subset


• 16: Luna Gargani and Marcelo-Haertel Miglioranza: Lung echocardiography


• 17: Reidar Bjørnerheim, Geneviève Derumeaux, and Andrzej Gackowski: Digital echocardiography laboratory


• Cardiac Morphology, Haemodynamics and Physiology


• 18: Peng-Fei Zhang, Yun Zhang, and Siew Yen Ho: Left ventricle: morphology and geometry


• 19: Erwan Donal, Seisyou Kou, and Partho Sengupta: Left ventricle: cardiac mechanics and LV performance


• 20: Bernard Cosyns, Krasimira Hristova, Hyung-Kwan Kim, and Otto Smiseth: Left ventricular systolic function


• 21: Maurizio Galderisi and Jae Oh: LV diastolic function


• 22: Monica Rosca, Sergio Mondillo, and Kim O¿Konnor: Left atrium


• 23: Annemien E. van den Bosch, Luigi P. Badano and Julia Grapsa: Right ventricle and pulmonary arterial pressure


• 24: Thierry Le Tourneau and Luis Caballero: Right atrium


• Disease echocardiographic assessment


• 25: Erwan Donal and Elena Galli: Heart failure: LV systolic dysfunction


• 26: Jens-Uwe Voigt, Peter Søgaard, and Emer Joyce: Heart failure: LV dyssynchrony


• 27: Marie Moonen and Nico Van de Veire: Heart failure: risk stratification


• 28: Johan De Sutter, Piotr Lipiec, and Christine Henri: Heart failure: preserved LV ejection fraction


• 29: George D. Athanassopoulos, Krassimira Hristrova, and Alessandro Salustri: Ischaemic heart disease: acute coronary syndromes


• 30: Eugenio Picano, Fausto Pinto, and Blazej Michalski: Ischemic heart disease: stable coronary artery disease - Coronary artery anomalies


• 31: Cristina Basso, Gaetano Thiene, and Siew Yen Ho: Heart valve disease: aortic valve disease


• 32: Helmut Baumgartner, Stefan Orwat, Leyla Elif Sade, and Javier Bermejo: Heart Valve disease: aortic stenosis


• 33: Christophe Tribouilloy, Patrizio Lancellotti, Ferande Peters, José Juan Gómez de Diego, and Luc A. Pierard: Heart valve disease: aortic regurgitation


• 34: Giovanni La Canna: Mitral valve disease: mitral valve anatomy and


• 35: Bogdan A. Popescu, Shantanu P. Sengupta, Niloufar Samiei, and Anca D. Mateescu: Mitral valve disease: mitral stenosis


• 36: Patrizio Lancellotti, Raluca Dulgher, Mani Vannanu, and Kiyoshi Yoshida: Mitral valve disease: mitral regurgitation


• 37: Denisa Muraru, Ashraf M. Anwar, and Jae-Kwan Song: Tricuspid valve disease


• 38: Werner Budts and Owen Miller: Pulmonary valve disease


• 39: Philippe Unger and Gerald Maurer: Multivalvular disease and others


• 40: John Chambers and Philippe Pibarot: Prosthetic valves


• 41: Gilbert Habib, Franck Thuny, Guy Van Camp and Simon Matskeplishvili: Endocarditis


• 42: Nuno Cardim, Denis Pellerin, and Filipa Xavier Valente: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy


• 43: Fausto Rigo, Covadonga Fernández-Golfin, and Bruno Pinamonti: Dilated cardiomyopathy


• 44: Perry Elliott, Kristina Haugaa, Pio Caso, and Maja Cikes: Restrictive cardiomyopathy / arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy


• 45: Frank Weidemann, Gilbert Habib, and Clara Vazquez: Isolated ventricular non-compaction


• 46: Rodolfo Citro, Laurent Davin, and Daniel Rodriguez Muñoz: Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy


• 47: Fausto Rigo, Covadonga Fernández-Golfin, and Bruno Pinamonti: Familial cardiomyopathies


• 48: Petros Nihoyannopoulos, André La Gerche, and Gustavo Restrepo: RV dilatation and dysfunction


• 49: Bernard Paelinck and Pedro Gutierrez Fajardo: Pericardial disease


• Disease echocardiographic assessment


• 50: Río Aguilar Torres, Luigi P. Badano, and Dimitrios Tsiapras: Cardiac transplant patients


• 51: Nadia Benyounes, Mauro Pepi, Roberta Esposito, Carmen Ginghina, and Ariel Cohen: Cardiac masses and potential sources of emboli


• 52: Maria Joao Andrade, Jadranka Separovic, and Ricardo Ronderos: Cardiac tumours/other non-neoplastic intracardiac masses / Extracardiac


• 53: Arturo Evangelista, Eduardo Bossone, and Alain Nchimi: Diseases of the aorta


• 54: Andreas Hagendorff: Systemic disease and other conditions: introduction


• 55: Antonello D'Andrea, André La Gerche, and Christine Selton-Suty: Athlete's Heart


• 56: Agnes Pasquet, Marcia Barbosa, and Jo Nan Liao: Systemic disease and other conditions: heart during pregnancy


• 57: Edyta Plonska-Gosciniak, Michal Ciurzynski, Marcin Fijalkowski, Piotr Gosciniak, Piotr Szymanski,Tomasz Pasierski, Daniel Rodriguez Muñoz, and Jose Luis Zamorano: Disease with main influence on cardiovascular system


• 58: Andreas Hagendorff, Elie Chammas, and Mohammed Rafique Essop: Disease with main influence on heart valves


• 59: Andreas Hagendorff and Laura Ernande: Disease with main influence on myocardium / pericardium


• 60: Damien Voilliot, JD Kasprzak, and Eduardo Bossone: Disease with main influence on right ventricular function


• 61: Giovanni Di Salvo, Werner Budts, and Owen Miller: Adult congenital heart disease


• Specific clinical context / environment


• 62: Susanna Price, Roxy Senior, and Bogdan A. Popescu: Acute cardiac care


• 63: Kristina H. Haugaa, Francesco Faletra, and João L. Cavalcante: Cardiac rhythm disorders: atrial fibrillation


• 64: Maurizio Galderisi, Juan Carlos Plana, Thor Edvardsen, and Patrizio Lancellotti: Cardiac oncology


• 65: Alejandra Carbonell San Román and Jose Luis Zamorano: Interventional echocardiography


• 66: Patrick Wouters, Fabio Guarracino, and Manfred Seeberger: Peri-operative echocardiography


• Miscellaneous


• 67: Andreas Hagendorff, Ivan Stankovic, and Masaaki Takeuchi: Coronary artery imaging


• 68: Muriel Sprynger, Iana Simova, and Scipione Carerj: Vascular echo imaging


• 69: Alexandros S. Stefanidis and Bogdan A. Popescu: Competence and certification


• 70: Aleksandar N. Neskovic: Training for emergency echocardiography


• 71: Petros Nihoyannopoulos and Luna Gargani: Laboratory accreditation


• 72: Kevin Fox and Henri Skinner: Quality assurance in echocardiography