Petros Nihoyannopoulos · Joseph Kisslo
Editors

2009

Echocardiography has expanded greatly over recent years to earn its place as a subspecialty in cardiology in its own right. From the original single M-mode modality of 50 years ago, it has evolved into a complex “multimodality” method for evaluating and quantifying cardiovascular lesions. In addition, the entire spectrum of hemodynamic assessment of the heart can now be performed noninvasively using echocardiography alone.