List of Contributors.
Preface.
Abbreviations.
Part 1 Aortic Diseases.
Chapter 1 Spontaneous Ruptured Aneurysm of the Sinus of Valsalva (Jing Ping Sun, Xing Sheng Yang& James D. Thomas).
Chapter 2 Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysms (Jing Ping Sun, Xing Sheng Yang& John D. Merlino).
Chapter 3 Aortic Dissection (Xing Sheng Yang& Jing Ping Sun).
Chapter 4 Aortic Intramural Hematoma (Jing Ping Sun, Xing Sheng Yang& Joel M. Felner).
Chapter 5 Giant-Cell Arteritis (Jing Ping Sun, Xing Sheng Yang& Joel M. Felner).
Part 2 Aortic Valvular Diseases.
Chapter 6 Quantification of Aortic Regurgitation Using Echocardiography (Jing Ping Sun& Alicia Rangosch).
Chapter 7 Aortic Stenosis (Jing Ping Sun& Joel M. Felner).
Part 3 Mitral Valvular Diseases.
Chapter 8 Isolated Cleft Mitral Valve in Adult (Xing Sheng Yang, Jing Ping Sun& John D. Merlinoi).
Chapter 9 Mitral Valve Prolapse in Case with Atrial Septal Defect (Jing Ping Sun& Xing Sheng Yang).
Chapter 10 Mitral Valve Aneurysm (Jing Ping Sun& Joel M. Felner).
Chapter 11 Mitral Valve Stenosis (Jing Ping Sun& Joel M. Felner).
Chapter 12 Quantification of Mitral Regurgitation (Jing Ping Sun& Alicia N. Rangosch).
Part 4 Prosthetic Valves.
Chapter 13 Mitral Valve Repair with the Use of an Annuloplasty Ring: The Importance of Echocardiography (Joel M. Felner& Jing Ping Sun).
Chapter 14 Biological Prostheses Valves (Jing Ping Sun& Joel M. Felner).
Chapter 15 Prosthetic Mechanical Valve (Jing Ping Sun& Joel M. Felner).
Chapter 16 Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (Joel M. Felner, Jing Ping Sun& Vasilus Babaliaros).
Part 5 Coronary Artery Disease.
Chapter 17 Acute Myocardial Infarction Complicating Papillary Muscle Rupture (Xing Sheng Yang, Jing Ping Sun& John D. Merlino).
Chapter 18 Ruptured Right Coronary Artery AneurysmResulting in Large Pseudoaneurysm (Jing Ping Sun, Erin Galbraith& Robert D. ODonnell Jr.).
Chapter 19 Acute Myocardial Infarction Complicated by Ventricular Septal Perforation (Xing Sheng Yang, Jing Ping Sun& John D. Merlino).
Chapter 20 Left Ventricular Mural Thrombus Following Myocardial Infarction (Xing Sheng Yang, Jing Ping Sun& Byron R. Williams Jr.).
Chapter 21 InferiorWall Aneurysm Following Myocardial Infarction (Jing Ping Sun, Xing Sheng Yang& John D. Merlino).
Chapter 22 Isolated Right Ventricular Infarction (Jing Ping Sun, Xing Sheng Yang& John D. Merlino).
Chapter 23 Coronary Artery Fistula (Jing Ping Sun, Xing Sheng Yang& John D. Merlino).
Chapter 24 Defined Location of Acute Myocardial Infarction by Two-D Strain Echocardiography Compared withMagnetic Resonance Imaging (Jing Ping Sun, Xing Sheng Yang, Robert D. ODonnell Jr.& John D. Merlino).
Part 6 Pulmonary Artery Diseases.
Chapter 25 Pulmonary Embolism (Jing Ping Sun, Seth Clemens& John D. Merlino).
Chapter 26 Pulmonary Emboli (Dale Yoo& Jing Ping Sun).
Chapter 27 Pulmonary Artery Dissection (Xiaofang Lu& Xin-Fang Wang).
Part 7 Congenital Heart Disease.
Chapter 28 Unicuspid Aortic Valve (Jing Ping Sun, Xing Sheng Yang& James D. Thomas).
Chapter 29 Bicuspid Aortic Valve (Xing Sheng Yang, Jing Ping Sun& Joel M. Felner).
Chapter 30 Quadricuspid Aortic Valve (Jing Ping Sun, Xing Sheng Yang& James D. Thomas).
Chapter 31 Congenital Left Ventricular Diverticulum (Yunhua Gao, Yali Xu& Xing Sheng Yang).
Chapter 32 Congenital Abnormality of the Mitral Valve Apparatus (Robert C. Bahler).
Chapter 33 Congenital Left Ventricular Diverticulum (Lin He, Xin-Fang Wang& Ming Xing Xie).
Chapter 34 Supracristal Ventricular Septal Defect (Jing Ping Sun, Robert D. ODonnell Jr.& John D. Merlino).
Chapter 35 Myocardial Bridging (Wen Xu Liu& Zhi An Li).
Chapter 36 Atrial Septal Defect (Dale Yoo& Jing Ping Sun).
Chapter 37 Ebstein's Anomaly withWolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome (Jing Ping Sun, Xing Sheng Yang, Alicia N. Rangosch& John D. Merlino).
Chapter 38 Double-Chambered Right Ventricle Associated with Ventricular Septal Defect (Jing Ping Sun& John D. Merlino).
Chapter 39 Unroofed Coronary Sinus Defect (Jing Ping Sun, Xing Sheng Yang, Joel M. Felner, Robert D. ODonnell Jr.& John D. Merlino).
Chapter 40 Membranous Ventricular Septal Defect with Bicuspid Aortic Valve (Jing Ping Sun, Xing Sheng Yang& John D. Merlino).
Chapter 41 Atrial Septal Aneurysm (Shawn X. Yang).
Chapter 42 Interventricular Membranous Septal Aneurysm (Jing Ping Sun, Xing Sheng Yang& John D. Merlino).
Chapter 43 Congenital Interrupted Aortic Arch (Jian Hua Wang& Gui Chun Ding).
Chapter 44 AortopulmonaryWindow and Atrioventricular Septal Defect (Leilei Cheng, Xianhong Shu& Jing Ping Sun).
Chapter 45 Marfan's Syndrome (Xing Sheng Yang, Jing Ping Sun& Joel M. Felner).
Chapter 46 Atrioventricular Septal Defect (Jing Ping Sun& James D. Thomas).
Chapter 47 Cantrells Syndrome (Yunhua Gao, Yali Xu& Xing Sheng Yang).
Chapter 48 Tetralogy of Fallot with Pulmonary Atresia (Jing Ping Sun, Xing Sheng Yang, Robert D. O'Donnell& John D. Merlino).
Chapter 49 Coarctation of the Aorta (Joel M. Felner& Jing Ping Sun).
Chapter 50 Supravalvular Aortic Stenosis withWilliams Syndrome (Jing Ping Sun, Xing Sheng Yang& Joel M. Felner).
Chapter 51 Discrete Subaortic Stenosis (Jing Ping Sun, Xing Sheng Yang& Joel M. Felner).
Chapter 52 Cor Triatriatum Sinister (Jing Ping Sun, Xing Sheng Yang& Joel M. Felner).
Part 8 Cardiac Tumor.
Chapter 53 Inferior Vena Caval Masses (Jing Ping Sun, William J. Stewart& James D. Thomas).
Chapter 54 The Right Ventricular Capillary Hemangiomas with Cystic Change (Yunhua Gao, Pin Qian& Jing Ping Sun).
Chapter 55 Cardiac Lipoma (Jing Ping Sun, Xing Sheng Yang, Dale Yoo& John D. Merlino).
Chapter 56 Hemangioma in the Right Ventricle (Hong Tang, Jing Ping Sun& Xing Sheng Yang).
Chapter 57 Pheochromocytoma (Jing Ping Sun, Angela K. Sullivan, Dan Sorescu& John D. Merlino).
Chapter 58 Left Atrial Mass Caused by Lung Cancer (Ming-Jui Hung).
Chapter 59 Cardiac Rhabdomyomas (Jing Ping Sun, Xing Sheng Yang& James D. Thomas).
Chapter 60 Cardiac Myxomas (Jing Ping Sun, Xing Sheng Yang, Hong Tang& Joel M. Felner).
Chapter 61 Carcinoid Heart Disease (Jing Ping Sun, Xing Sheng Yang, Alicia N. Rangosch& John D. Merlino).
Chapter 62 Cardiac Papillary Fibroelastoma (Jing Ping Sun, Xing Sheng Yang, William J. Stewart& James D. Thomas).
Chapter 63 Cardiac Fibroma (Jing Ping Sun& James D. Thomas).
Chapter 64 Right-Sided Cardiac Metastatic Pleomorphic Sarcoma (Jing Ping Sun& James D. Thomas).
Chapter 65 Primary Cardiac Undifferentiated Sarcoma (Jing Ping Sun, Xing Sheng Yang& James D. Thomas).
Chapter 66 Pericardial Cyst (Jing Ping Sun& Joel M. Felner).
Chapter 67 Left Ventricular Septal Aneurysm in Cardiac Sarcoidosis (Xing Sheng Yang, Jing Ping Sun& John D. Merlino).
Part 9 Infective Disease.
Chapter 68 Constrictive Pericarditis (Jing Ping Sun, Xing Sheng Yang& Joel M. Felner).
Chapter 69 Aortic Ring Abscess (Jing Ping Sun, Xing Sheng Yang& Joel M. Felner).
Chapter 70 Native Aortic Valve Organized Thrombosis (Jing Ping Sun, Xing Sheng Yang& James D. Thomas).
Chapter 71 Aortic Valvular Flail Causing Severe Regurgitation (Jing Ping Sun, Xing Sheng Yang& Joel M. Felner).
Chapter 72 Perforation of Aortic Valve due to Bacterial Endocarditis (Xing Sheng Yang, Jing Ping Sun& James D. Thomas).
Chapter 73Bartonella henselae Endocarditis (John D. Merlino& Jing Ping Sun).
Chapter 74 A Hydatid Cyst in Left Ventricular LateralWall (Yuming Mu, Patrick E. BeDell& Jing Ping Sun).
Chapter 75 Acute Endocarditis with Diastolic Mitral Regurgitation (Ambareesh Bajpai& Jing Ping Sun).
Chapter 76 Infective Endocarditis with Initial Cerebral Abscess and Hemorrhage (Shan Wang, Li-xue Yin, Yan Deng, Ming-liang Zuo, Yang Yu, Zheng-Yang Wang& Shuang Li).
Chapter 77 Aortic Root Abscess with Rupture (Xing Sheng Yang, Jing Ping Sun& James D. Thomas).
Chapter 78Aspergillus Pacemaker Endocarditis (Xing Sheng Yang, Jing Ping Sun& James D. Thomas).
Chapter 79 Mitral Leaflet Perforation Secondary to Infective Endocarditis (Xing Sheng Yang, Jing Ping Sun& Byron R. Williams, Jr.).
Part 10 Cardiomyopathy.
Chapter 80 Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (Jing Ping Sun, Xing Sheng Yang& John D. Merlino).
Chapter 81 Unusual Hypertrophy Cardiomyopathy (Jing Ping Sun, Alicia N. Rangosch& Joel M. Felner).
Chapter 82 Transcoronary Ablation of Septal Hypertrophy in Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy (Yuhai Ho& Zhi An Li).
Chapter 83 Primary Endocardial Fibroelastosis (Jing Ping Sun, Xing Sheng Yang& James D. Thomas).
Chapter 84 Cardiac Amyloidosis (Jing Ping Sun& Dan Sorescu).
Chapter 85 Apical Ballooning Syndrome (Jing Ping Sun, Xing Sheng Yang& James D. Thomas).
Chapter 86 Noncompaction Cardiomyopathy (Xing Sheng Yang& Jing Ping Sun).
Chapter 87 A Rare Case of Isolated Noncompaction of the Right Ventricular Myocardium (Guang Zhi, Xiao Juan Zhang, LuYue Gai& Patrick E. BeDell).
Part 11 Miscellaneous.
Chapter 88 Role of Echocardiography in Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (Jing Ping Sun& Xing Sheng Yang).
Chapter 89 Cardiac Tamponade Caused by Penetrating Atheromatous Ulcer and Intramural Hematoma Involving Ascending Aorta (Ming-Jui Hung& Jing Ping Sun).
Chapter 90 Iatrogenic Dissection of Coronary Sinus Secondary to Angioplasty (Jing Ping Sun& Joel M. Felner).
Chapter 91 Hypereosinophilic Syndromes (Jing Ping Sun, Xing Sheng Yang& Joel M. Felner).
Chapter 92 Echocardiographic Evaluation of the Atria and Appendages (Jing Ping Sun& John D. Merlino).
Chapter 93 Lipomatous Hypertrophy of the Interatrial Septum (Xing Sheng Yang, Jing Ping Sun& John D. Merlino).
Chapter 94 Apicoaortic Bypass (Jing Ping Sun, Alicia N. Rangosch, Robert D. ODonnell Jr., Dan Sorescu& John D. Merlino).
Chapter 95 Paradoxical Strokes (Jing Ping Sun, Xing Sheng Yang& James D. Thomas).
Chapter 96 Cardiac Tamponade Caused by Pleural Effusion (Jing Ping Sun, Joel M. Felner& John D. Merlino).
Chapter 97 Anatomically Oriented Right and Left Ventricular Volume Measurements with Dynamic Three-Dimensional Echocardiography (Jing Ping Sun).
Part 12 Cardiac Trauma.
Chapter 98 A Bullet in Right Ventricle (Joel M. Felner& Jing Ping Sun).
Chapter 99 Ventricular Septal Defect and Mitral Valve Chordae Transected by Chest Stab (Joel M. Felner& Jing Ping Sun).
Chapter 100 Aorta-Right Ventricular Fistula Caused by Chest Stab (Joel M. Felner& Jing Ping Sun).
Chapter 101 A Nail in Aorta (Joel M. Felner& Jing Ping Sun).
Index.