Echocardiography education
Learn to read the heart, one waveform at a time.
Free, physician-reviewed tutorials, technique guides, and teaching cases on echocardiography and valvular heart disease — written for students and practitioners, and cited at every step.
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Physician-reviewed
Every clinical page names its author and a separate medical reviewer, with a visible last-reviewed date.
Cited to guidelines
Diagnostic thresholds and grading criteria are sourced to ASE/ESC guidelines and peer-reviewed literature.
Built for learners
Written for the level of a sonography or cardiology trainee — precise, but never assuming prior mastery.
Browse by topic
Four learning tracks, from first principles to a full teaching case library.
Echocardiography Basics
Foundational physics, standard views, and the building blocks every trainee needs before scanning independently.
Valvular Heart Disease
Guideline-based echocardiographic grading of stenotic and regurgitant lesions across all four valves.
Congenital Heart Disease
Recognizing shunt lesions and structural anomalies, from pediatric screening through adult congenital follow-up.
Myocardial Disease
Assessing the cardiomyopathies — hypertrophic, dilated, restrictive, and infiltrative — and quantifying systolic and diastolic function.
Pericardial Disease
Identifying effusion, tamponade physiology, and constriction using 2D, Doppler, and respirophasic findings.
Imaging Techniques
Acquisition protocols and window-by-window technique for every major echocardiographic study type.
Case Library
Worked teaching cases that connect echocardiographic findings to clinical decision-making.
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A few pages we'd recommend first.
Aortic Stenosis
How to grade aortic stenosis severity by Doppler echocardiography, including pitfalls in low-flow, low-gradient disease.
Read tutorial Echocardiography BasicsEchocardiography Basics
Ultrasound physics, imaging modes, and how a standard transthoracic study is organized.
Read tutorial Imaging TechniquesTransthoracic Echocardiography
A window-by-window acquisition protocol for a complete transthoracic study.
Read tutorial Echocardiography BasicsLeft Ventricular Ejection Fraction
Visual estimation versus Simpson’s biplane method, and where each can mislead.
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