Dear Colleagues,

We are delighted to share with you the official peer-reviewed highlights of EuroEcho-Imaging 2014, held in Vienna, Austria, from December 3 to 6, 2014, and to partner with MD Conference Express ^® for this publication.

EuroEcho-Imaging in Review provides timely, peer-reviewed highlights of high-impact presentations from the live congress, long before they are published in the academic literature, and is a trusted education resource. The articles in this issue underwent a rigorous 5-step peer-review process to ensure their accuracy and provide a reliable interim information source prior to the research being vetted by the standard journal peer-review process.

The articles we selected for this issue represent the most compelling topics of relevance to a broad array of practitioners and have the potential to influence clinical practice of cardiovascular care in the acute setting. The spotlight topics for this year’s meeting were 3D imaging and acute cardiac care, and you will find a number of articles on these topics, including selected updates on multimodality imaging and new frontiers with the heart in 3D.

We hope that you find the articles and practical perspectives in this special issue of EuroEcho-Imaging in Review helpful in integrating this new information into your clinical practice. For more information, please visit www.escardio.org/euroechoinreview.

We wish you all the best in the coming year and hope to see you in Seville, Spain, for EuroEcho-Imaging 2015. For more information please visit www.escardio.org/EACVI.