Foreword -- Three-dimensional echocardiography: lessons in overcoming time and space -- Basic principles and practical application -- Left ventricular function -- Three-dimensional stress echocardiography -- Cardiac dyssynchrony -- The right ventricle -- Valvular heart disease - insufficiencies -- Valvular heart disease - stenoses -- Three-dimensional echocardiography in adult congenital heart disease -- Congenital heart disease in children -- Cardiac tumors and sources of embolism -- Monitoring and guiding cardiac interventions and surgery -- Subject index.