The Echo Manual [Hardcover]

Jae K. Oh (Author), James B. Seward (Author), A. Jamil Tajik (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0781748534 | ISBN-13: 978-0781748537 | Publication Date: October 19, 2006 | Edition: Third

Thoroughly updated for its Third Edition, this best-selling manual is a practical guide to the performance, interpretation, and clinical applications of echocardiography. The Echo Manual is written by recognized authorities at the Mayo Clinic and provides a concise, user-friendly summary of techniques, diagnostic criteria, and quantitative methods for both echocardiography and Doppler echocardiography. Discussion of each clinical problem also includes transesophageal echocardiography.

This edition covers the latest techniques, standards, and applications and includes new contrast agents. All references have been updated. More than 900 images—well annotated and true to gray scale and color—give readers an immediate grasp of salient points.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 496 pages
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Third edition (October 19, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0781748534
• ISBN-13: 978-0781748537
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #337,856 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Echo Text, September 13, 2007

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This review is from: The Echo Manual (Hardcover)

I have recently completed fellowship and have recently taken the cardiology boards.

Over the last year I have used/borrowed the textbooks by Weyman, Feigenbaum, Otto, and have owned the most recent baby Otto.

The Echo Manual is the best single source for a new cardiology fellow and for anyone studying for the Echo boards. The clarity, depth, and breadth in such are small package are not matched by any of the other books. It has excellent diagrams and tables. It does a great job of covering complex topics such as diastology, constriction vs restriction, and congenital heart disease.
The Weyman is out of print. The big Otto is too big for board review. The baby Otto is too simple to be of help to fellows and techs. The Feigenbaum is a good book and it comes with a DVD of examples. However, the Echo Manual simply covers the topics better. It works great as a board-review book and just as great as a reference. If you only have room for one book in your budget, I would recommend this book.

Cons: No DVD. Mayo displays the R and L heart in reverse of everyone else. Text can be dense. Overall, these are minor gripes.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars an authoratative text, October 14, 2002

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Dr. Manan vasenwala Md, mrcpuk (ALIGARH, UTTAR PRADESH India) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Echo Manual (Hardcover)

the second edition of the manual is the work of three big maestros. the first chapter is an overview which is about man and machine. thereafter follow chapters on acquisition of images, transthoracic and trans esophageal. the two chapters on hemodynamic assessment and vulvular heart diseases are astonishingly lucid. other chapters are fundamentally excellent.the book concludes on an all important chapter on correlative echocardiography.in toto, this manual is small in size but large in authority.
manan

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gold standard introductory text, August 6, 2009

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C. Silverstein (Nashville TN) - See all my reviews
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This is an ideal text for a general cardiology fellow. Just the right level of detail. Mayo way of displaying images can be a bit frustrating for those in other institutions that do not use the Mayo format.