The Practice of Clinical Echocardiography

Part 1:

Section 1.1:Transesophageal Echocardiography

1.1.1Indications, Procedure, Image Planes, and Doppler Flows

1.1.2Monitoring Ventricular Function in the Operating Room Impact on Clinical Outcome

1.1.3Aortic Dissection and Trauma Value and Limitations of Echocardiography

Section 1.2:The Left Ventricle

1.2.1Quantitative Evaluation of Left Ventricular Structure, Wall Stress, and Systolic Function

1.2.2Quantitative Evaluation of Regional Left Ventricular Systolic Function

1.2.3Left Ventricular Diastolic Function Clinical Utility of Doppler Echocardiography

1.2.4Two-Dimensional Echocardiographic Digital Image Processing and Approaches to Endocardial Edge Detection

1.2.5Myocardial Contrast Echocardiography Methods, Analysis, and Applications

1.2.6Interaction of Ultrasound with Tissue, Approaches to Tissue Characterization, and Measurement Accuracy

1.2.7Three-Dimensional Echocardiography Approaches and Applications

Section 1.3:Ischemic Heart Disease

1.3.1The Role of Echocardiographic Evaluation in Patients Presenting with Acute Chest Pain to the Emergency Room Diagnosis, Triage, Treatment Decisions, Outcome

1.3.2Echocardiography in the Coronary Care Unit Management of Acute Myocardial Infarction, Detection of Complications, and Prognostic Implications

1.3.3Exercise Echocardiography Stress Testing in the Initial Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease and in Patients with Prior Revascularization or Myocardial Infarction

1.3.4Stress Echocardiography with Nonexercise Techniques Principles, Protocols, Interpretation, and Clinical Applications

1.3.5Principles of Intravascular Ultrasound

1.3.6Intravascular Ultrasound Histologic Correlation and Clinical Applications

Section 1.4:Valvular Heart Disease

1.4.1Quantitation of Valvular Regurgitation Beyond Color Flow Mapping

1.4.2The Role of Echocardiography in the Timing of Surgical Intervention for Chronic Mitral and Aortic Regurgitation

1.4.3Echocardiography in Patient Selection, Operative Planning, and Intraoperative Evaluation of Mitral Valve Repair

1.4.4Echocardiography in the Patient Undergoing Catheter Balloon Mitral Commissurotomy Patient Selection, Hemodynamic Results, Complications, and Long-term Outcome

1.4.5Clinical Decision Making in Endocarditis

1.4.6Aortic Stenosis Echocardiographic Evaluation of Disease Severity, Disease Progression, and the Role of Echocardiography in Clinical Decision Making

1.4.7Fluid Dynamics of Prosthetic Valves

1.4.8Echocardiographic Recognition and Quantitation of Prosthetic Valve Dysfunction

1.4.9Echocardiographic Recognition of Unusual Complications After Surgery on the Great Vessels and Cardiac Valves

Section 1.5:Cardiomyopathies and Pericardial Disease

1.5.1Doppler and Two-Dimensional Echocardiographic Evaluation in Acute and Long-term Management of the Heart Failure Patient

1.5.2Echocardiography in the Evaluation and Management of Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

1.5.3Restrictive Cardiomyopathy Diagnosis and Prognostic Implications

1.5.4Pericardial Disease

1.5.5The Role of Echocardiography in the Evaluation of Patients After Heart Transplantation

Section 1.6:Echocardiography in the Pregnant Patient

1.6.1The Role of Echocardiography in the Diagnosis and Management of Heart Disease in Pregnancy

Section 1.7:Other Vascular and Systemic Diseases

1.7.1Hypertension Impact of Echocardiographic Data on the Mechanism of Hypertension, Treatment Options, Prognosis, and Assessment of Therapy

1.7.2Echocardiographic Findings in Acute and Chronic Pulmonary Disease

1.7.3Echocardiographic Findings in Systemic Diseases Characterized by Immune-Mediated Injury

1.7.4Echocardiography in the Evaluation of Cardiac Disease Due to Endocrinopathies, Renal Disease, Obesity, and Nutritional Deficiencies

1.7.5Aging Changes Seen on Echocardiography

1.7.6Echocardiographic Evaluation of the Patient with a Systemic Embolic Event

1.7.7The Role of Echocardiography in Atrial Fibrillation and Flutter

Section 1.8:Echocardiography in Adult Congenital Heart Disease

1.8.1General Echocardiographic Approach to the Adult with Suspected Congenital Heart Disease

1.8.2Echocardiographic Evaluation of the Adult with Unoperated Congenital Heart Disease

1.8.3Echocardiographic Evaluation of the Adult with Postoperative Congenital Heart Disease

Section 1.9:The Echocardiography Laboratory

1.9.1Education and Training of Physicians and Sonographers

1.9.2Maintaining Quality in the Echocardiography Laboratory

1.9.3The Digital Echocardiography Laboratory