Description

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The Book of Echo is concise yet comprehensive; it is focused on the adult echocardiography. It is written to be the echo book that echocardiographers, echocardiography fellows, cardiology fellows, and cardiac technicians use without having to navigate through large books looking for practical or diagnostic clues. The book has 20 chapters with more than 600 illustrations covering the basic technical aspect to more advanced diagnostic techniques. All the provided information complies with the latest available echocardiography guidelines. Topics include basics physics, image acquisition and optimization techniques, echocardiography enhancing agent, stress echocardiography, echocardiographic diagnosis, introduction to congenital heart disease, and interventional echocardiography.

About the Author

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Dr. Sami Ghazal is. Assistant Professor of Medicine and consultant of internal medicine and cardiology in Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University at the city of Dammam, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Ghazal is also the program director if the adult cardiology fellowship and the director of the non-invasive cardiac lab. Dr. Ghazal has graduated from King Faisal University at Dammam in 2005 as a medical doctor and furthered his studies and training where he obtained the Saudi Board of Internal Medicine in 2009, the Saudi Fellowship of Adult Cardiology in 2013. Dr. Ghazal received a formal training of echocardiography in McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada where he completed the Advanced Echocardiography Fellowship. Also, he received The Dimplomate of Adult Comprehensive Echocardiography offered by the National Board of Echocardiography in USA. Dr. Ghazal main interest is in the field of echocardiography where he published many papers in reputable journals.