Preoperative and intraoperative echocardiography has become an indispensable tool for guiding
mitral valve surgery and has fostered the development of many innovative surgical techniques.
Mitral valvuloplasty is now an established surgical method for the treatment of mitral
insufficiency but the success is largely dependent on the extent of the underlying disease of
the mitral valve. The book by Dr. Ng and coauthors is an extraordinary presentation of the
relation between echocardiographic display of mitral valve pathology and reconstructive mitral
valve surgery. The atlas provides an excellent illustrative guide to teach
echocardiographic-anatomic correlations and educates the reader on the techniques of mitral
valve repair. The quality of the illustrations particularly the surgical photographs is
exquisite. The book will be helpful for cardiologists and cardiac surgeons.
