The simple and concise format of the book was highly appreciated not only by medical students and clinicians but also by nurses and technicians.The initial chapters are devoted to principles of conventional echocardiography and color Doppler imaging as well as their clinical applications. This is followed by description of various ECHO-windows and ECHO-views of normal cardiac structures. ...

• The book presents the complex and intriguing subject of echocardiography in a format which is simple-to-understand, ready-to-assimilate and handy for reference.
• Different abnormalities of heart diseases including congenital, valvular, coronary, hypertensive, myocardial, endocardial and pericardial diseases have been discussed under separate sections.
• Due emphasis has been laid on diagnostic pitfalls, differential diagnoses, causative factors and clinical significances.
• Newer topics such as 3D-ECHO, strain imaging and TAPSE has been included.
• Real-time images, illustrative diagrams and explanatory tables have been incorporated.