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Welcome to ECHOpedia.org. This wiki-based echocardiography course and -textbook is designed for especially cardiology residents and echocardiographists. Echopedia.org is not intended as a patient information site. Visit this site to learn about transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) and transesophageal echocardiography (TEE).

The ECHO Textbook Browse the illustrated ECHO Textbook Introduction Standard imaging Views Advanced Echocardiographic techniques Assessment of function Valves The normal echocardiogram Aquired heart disease Cardiomyopathies Congenital heart disease Miscellaneous Normal Values

Cases and Examples Learn from these cases and examples HCM, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy Amyloidosis Four leaflet aortic valve Aortic valve vegetation Aortic valve stenosis ARVC Dilated cardiomyopathy with severe mitral valve regurgitation Excentric aortic valve regurgitation Spontaneous echo contrast in the left ventricle Thrombus in the left ventricle Tamponade Tumor on the tricuspid valve Rupture of the ventricular septum 3D-4D Left ventricle and Mitral Valve A patients with Kahler's disease A left atrial mass

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