Echocardiography Board Review

Multiple Choice Question-and-Answer Book for Echocardiographers of All Levels—3rd Edition Updated to Include 100 New Questions

Echocardiography Board Review, Third Edition is written in a unique question-and-answer format. Each question contains four potential answers related to the field of echocardiography — only one of which is correct. The discussion following each question contains specific rationale explaining the correct answer, along with additional information pertaining to the topic so that key concepts are clearly understood by the reader.

The questions address many areas of echocardiography, including applied ultrasound physics, practical hydrodynamics, imaging techniques, valvular heart disease, myocardial diseases, congenital heart disease, noninvasive hemodynamics, surgical echocardiography, and more. Rather than being a replacement for a standard echocardiography textbook, Echocardiography Board Review is designed to complement the textbook by bringing out salient concepts in a clear fashion. Features of the work include:

• Various echocardiographic techniques, applications, and the disease processes that they address
• Aspects of echocardiography that are likely to appear in echocardiography certifying examinations such as the National Board of Echocardiography for Cardiologists
• Applied physics and discussion of various technical or hemodynamic considerations
• 100 new multiple-choice questions (MCQs), bringing the grand total to 600+ MCQs divided into 30 chapters

Echocardiography Board Review, Third Edition is a helpful resource for those involved in the field of echocardiography who wish to become better practitioners through an active form of learning. Additionally, the work serves as a useful complementary asset in preparing for various certifying examinations related to the field of echocardiography.

Ramdas Pai is a Professor of Medicine, Chairman of Medicine and Clinical Sciences, and is the Program Director for the Cardiology Fellowship Training Program at UCR School of Medicine. He is an invited speaker in the field of echocardiography internationally. He has published 400 abstracts and manuscripts in the field of cardiology and echocardiography.

Padmini Varadarajan is Professor of Medicine, Chief of Cardiology, Vice Chair, Internal medicine, Associate Program Director for the Cardiology Fellowship/Internal Medicine Residency Training Programs at UCR, School of Medicine. She is also an advanced academic echocardiographer who has the unique expertise in echo as well as Cardiac MRI. She is an active researcher, clinician and a teacher in both these areas and presented scholarly work at multiple national meetings.