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The new edition of Practice of Clinical Echocardiography provides expert guidance on interpreting echocardiographic images and Doppler flow data. Designed for those already equipped with a mastery of basic principles, this definitive reference shows you how to apply these findings to your daily clinical decision making. Each chapter focuses on a specific disease process with technical details of qualitative and quantitative interpretation of echocardiographic images and Doppler flow data.

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Section 1: Advanced Principles for the Echocardiographer

1. The Diagnostic Echocardiography Laboratory: Structure, Standards and Quality Improvement

2. 3D Echocardiography: Principles of Image Acquisition, Display and Analysis

3. The Comprehensive Diagnostic Transesophageal Echocardiogram: Integrating 2D and 3D Imaging, Doppler Quantitation and Advanced Approaches

4. Intraoperative and Procedural Echocardiography: Basic Principles

5. Intracardiac Echocardiography

6. Point of Care Echocardiography: Scope of Practice, Quality Assurance and Impact on Patient Outcomes

Section 2: The Left Ventricle

7. Left Ventricular Structure and Systolic Function: Quantitative Echocardiography

8. Myocardial Mechanics: Velocity, Strain, Strain Rate, Cardiac Synchrony and Twist

9. Left Ventricular Diastolic Function

10. Digital Image Processing and Automated Image Analysis in Echocardiography

Section 3: Ischemic Heart Disease

11. Echocardiography in the Emergency Department: Role in Patients with Acute Chest Pain

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

13. Exercise Echocardiography for Diagnosis of Coronary Disease

14. Non-Exercise Stress Echocardiography for Diagnosis of Coronary Disease

Section 4: Valvular Heart Disease

15. Aortic Stenosis: Disease Severity, Progression, and Timing of Intervention

16. Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation: Role of Echocardiography in Patient Selection, Procedural Planning and Monitoring and Evaluation of Outcomes

17. Aortic Valve Regurgitation: Quantitation of Disease Severity and Timing of Surgical Intervention

18. Mitral Regurgitation: Valve Anatomy, Regurgitant Severity and Timing Of Intervention. (Including Secondary MR)

19. Surgical Mitral Valve Repair: Patient Selection, Operative Planning and Intra-Operative Monitoring

20. Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair: Role of Echocardiography in Patient Selection, Procedural Guidance and Evaluation of Outcomes

21. Mitral Stenosis: Patient Selection, Hemodynamic Results, Complications and Long-Term Outcome with Balloon Mitral Commissurotomy

22. Endocarditis: the Role of Echocardiography in Diagnosis and Decision-Making

23. Fluid Dynamics of Prosthetic Valves

24. Prosthetic Valve Dysfunction: Echocardiographic Recognition and Quantitation (Including Paravalvular Regurgitation and Closure)

Section 5: Cardiomyopathies and Pericardial Disease

25. Dilated Cardiomyopathy: Role of Echocardiography in Diagnosis and Patient Management

26. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Echocardiography in Diagnosis and Management of Patients (Including Stress Testing)

27. Restrictive Cardiomyopathy: Diagnosis and Prognostic Implications

28. Pericardial Disease

29. Cardiac Transplantation: Pre and Post Transplant Evaluation

Section 6: The Right Heart

31. Right Ventricular Anatomy, Function and Echocardiographic Evaluation

32. Pulmonary Hypertension: Role of Echocardiography in Diagnosis and Patient Management

33. Right Sided Valve Disease in Adults

Section 7: Vascular And Systemic Diseases

34. Aortic Dissection and Trauma: Value and Limitations of Echocardiography

35. Systemic Diseases Characterized by Immune-Mediated Injury: Echocardiographic Findings

36. Nutritional and Metabolic Disorders (Include Alcohol, Sleep Apnea, Liver Disease, Diabetes, Obesity): Echocardiographic Findings

37. Echocardiography in Athletes

38. Inherited Connective Tissue Disorders: the Role of Echocardiography in Diagnosis and Decision-Making

39. Aging Changes Seen on Echocardiography

40. Echocardiographic Evaluation of Patients with a Systemic Embolic Event

41. The Role of Echocardiography in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation and Flutter

42. Cardiac Tumors

Section 8: Adult Congenital Heart Disease and the Pregnant Patient

43. Heart Disease in Pregnancy

44. Congenita

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