This is the PDF eBook version for The Practice of Clinical Echocardiography 2nd Edition by Catherine M. Otto

TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY

• Indications, procedure, image planes and Doppler flows
• Monitoring ventricular function in the operating room: Impact on clinical outcome
• Aortic dissection and trauma: Value and limitations of echocardiography
THE LEFT VENTRICLE

• Quantitative evaluation of left ventricular structure, wall stress, and systolic function
• Quantitative evaluation of regional left ventricular systolic function
• Left ventricular diastolic function: Clinical utility of Doppler echocardiography
• 2-Dimensional echocardiographic digital image processing and approaches to endocardial edge detection
• Myocardial contrast echocardiography: Methods, analysis, and applications
• The interaction of ultrasound with tissue: Imaging artifacts, measurement accuracy, and approaches to tissue characterization
• 3D Echocardiography: Approaches and applications
ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE

• The role of echocardiographic evaluation in patients presenting with acute chest pain to the emergency room: Diagnosis, triage, treatment decisions, outcome
• Echocardiography in the coronary care unit: Management of acute myocardial infarction, detection of complications, prognostic implications
• Exercise echocardiography stress testing in the initial diagnosis of coronary artery disease, and in patients with prior revascularization or myocardial infarction
• Stress echocardiography with non-exercise techniques: Principles, protocols, interpretation, and clinical applications
• Principles of intravascular ultrasound
• Intravascular ultrasound: Histologic correlation and clinical applications
VALVULAR HEART DISEASE

• Quantitation of valvular regurgitation
• The role of echocardiography in the timing of surgical intervention for chronic aortic and mitral regurgitation
• The utility of echocardiography in patient selection, planning the operative procedure and intra-operative evaluation of mitral valve repair and other cardiac surgical procedures
• Echocardiography in the patient undergoing catheter balloon mitral valvuloplasty: Patient selection, hemodynamic results, complications and long-term outcome
• Clinical decision making in patients with endocarditis: The role of echocardiography
• Aortic stenosis: Echocardiographic evaluation of disease severity, disease progression, and the role of echocardiography in clinical decision making
• Fluid dynamics of prosthetic valves
• Echocardiographic recognition and quantitation of prosthetic valve dysfunction
• Echocardiographic recognition of unusual complications after surgery on the great vessels and/or cardiac valves
CARDIOMYOPATHIES AND PERICARDIAL DISEASE

• Doppler and 2-dimensional echocardiographic evaluation in acute and long-term management of the heart failure patient
• Echocardiography in the evaluation and management of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
• Restrictive cardiomyopathy: Diagnosis and prognostic implications
• Pericardial disease
• Role of echocardiography in the evaluation of the patient after heart transplantation
ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY IN THE PREGNANT PATIENT

• The role of echocardiography hemodynamic monitoring in pre-eclampsia and in the diagnosis and management of valvular and congenital disease in pregnancy and in the peri-partum period
OTHER VASCULAR AND SYSTEMIC DISEASES

• Hypertension: Echocardiographic changes, prognostic value, pathophysiologic insights and impact on clinical decision making
• Echocardiographic findings in acute and chronic pulmonary disease and differentiation from primary cardiac disease
• Echocardiographic findings in systemic diseases characterized by immune-mediated injury
• Echocardiography in the evaluation of cardiac disease due to endocrine disease, renal disease, obesity, and nutritional deficiencies
• Aging changes seen on echocardiography
• Echocardiographic evaluation of the patient with a systemic embolic event
• Echocardiographic aspects of atrial fibrillation and flutter
ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY IN ADULT CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE

• General echocardiographic approach to the adult with suspected congenital heart disease
• Echocardiographic evaluation of the adult congenital heart disease patient with no prior cardiac procedures
• Echocardiographic evaluation of the adult patient with post-operative congenital heart disease
ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY LABORATORY

• Education and training of physicians and sonographers
• Maintaining quality in the echocardiography laboratory
• The digital echocardiography lab