Benjamin W. Eidem, MD, FACC, FASE; Frank Cetta, MD, FACC, FASE; and Patrick W. O’Leary, MD, FACC, FASE, eds. 500 pages. Philadelphia, USA: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2010. $229.00 ISBN 0-7817-8136-1 It has been nearly 8 years since a textbook on echocardiography specifically for pediatric congenital heart disease (CHD) has been published. A specific work on both pediatric and adult CHD emphasizing imaging is a new endeavor. Three expert senior clinicians from the Mayo Clinic are the editors and primary authors of this multiauthor textbook, which includes young investigators, midcareer investigators, and senior experts in pediatric and congenital heart echocardiography and imaging from around the United States and Canada. In their Introduction, the editors, citing the evolution of echocardiography, remind us of the major contributions of Drs James Seward and Jamil Tajik and Drs William Edwards and Donald Hagler to the field of 2-dimensional echocardiography and CHD in 1987, after the original investigations of M-mode echocardiography and 2-dimensional echocardiography by this reviewer (D.J.S.). Richard Meyer and Nils Lundstrom, the editors of this new text, also, in their Introduction, give special attention to Dr. Edwards, the renowned cardiac pathologist and a major resource. This textbook is well organized. The first chapter relates to principles of cardiovascular ultrasound, followed by practical issues, anatomic orientation, and segmental cardiovascular analysis; quantitative methods for echocardiography, basic and advanced; and then lesion-oriented chapters, including pulmonary venous abnormalities and abnormalities of the atrial septum, atrial ventricular septal defects, Ebstein malformation, mitral valve abnormalities, congenitally corrected transposition, ventricular septal defects, univentricular connections, …