Textbook of Clinical Echocardiography

Catherine M Otto, MD, is Editor-in-Chief of Heart, J. Ward Kennedy-Hamilton Endowed Chair in Cardiology and Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle. Dr Otto has combined echocardiography and valve disease expertise. She is a prolific and reliable editor, editing five other Elsevier echocardiography titles ranging from educational content for cardiologists and technicians (Textbook of Clinical Echocardiography, Echocardiography Review Guide) to practitioner references (The Practice of Echocardiography, Intraoperative and Interventional Echocardiography) and a title in Braunwald's Companion series Valvular Heart Disease.

* Principles of Image Acquisition and Doppler Analysis* Transthoracic Views, Normal Anatomy, and Flow Patterns* Transesophageal Echocardiography* Other Echocardiographic Methods* Clinical Indications for Echocardiography* Left and Right Ventricular Systolic Function* Ventricular Diastolic Filling and Function* Ischemic Cardiac Disease* Cardiomyopathies, Hypertensive Heart Disease, and Pulmonary Heart Disease* Pericardial Disease* Valvular Stenosis* Valvular Regurgitation* Prosthetic Valves* Endocarditis* Cardiac Masses and Cardiac "Source of Embolus"* Diseases of the Great Vessels* Adult Congenital Heart Disease