Echocardiography Review Guide

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.

1Principles of Echocardiographic Image Acquisition and Doppler Analysis 2Transthoracic Views, Anatomy, and Flow Patterns 3Transesophageal Echocardiography 4Other Echocardiographic Modalities 5Clinical Indications and Quality Assurance 6Left and Right Ventricular Systolic Function 7Ventricular Diastolic Filling and Function 8Ischemic Cardiac Disease 9Cardiomyopathies, Hypertensive and Pulmonary Heart Disease 10Pericardial Disease 11Valvular Stenosis 12Valvular Regurgitation 13Prosthetic Valves 14Endocarditis 15Cardiac Masses and Cardiac "Source of Embolus" 16Diseases of the Great Vessels 17The Adult with Congenital Heart Disease