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Textbook of Clinical Echocardiography

  • 6th Edition - November 12, 2016
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Catherine M. Otto
  • Language: English

Today’s echocardiography continues to be a low-cost, minimal-risk procedure with the potential to yield a vast amount of detailed, precise anatomic and physiologic informat… Read more

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Today’s echocardiography continues to be a low-cost, minimal-risk procedure with the potential to yield a vast amount of detailed, precise anatomic and physiologic information. Dr. Catherine Otto’s Textbook of Clinical Echocardiography, 6th Edition, clearly outlines how to master the core principles of echocardiographic imaging in order to make an initial diagnosis and integrate this data in clinical decision making for patients with a wide range of cardiovascular diseases. Ideal for cardiology fellows, medicine residents, and cardiac sonography students, this bestselling text teaches all the essential elements of ultrasound physics, tomographic and 3D anatomy, image acquisition, advanced imaging modalities, and application in specific disease categories– all with a practical, problem-based approach.

Key features

  • Concentrates on the foundational concepts you need to know to perform and interpret echocardiographic studies and to pass your board exams
  • Covers all advanced echo techniques, including contrast echo, 3D echo, and myocardial mechanics, as well as intraoperative and intra-procedural transesophageal echocardiography (TEE)
  • Discusses what alternative diagnostic approaches to initiate when echocardiography does not provide a definitive answer

Table of contents

1. Principles of Echocardiographic Image Acquisition and Doppler Analysis

2. Normal Anatomy and Flow Patterns on Transthoracic Echocardiography

3. Transesophageal Echocardiography

4. Specialized Echocardiography Applications

5. Clinical Indications and Quality Assurance

6. Left and Right Ventricular Systolic Function

7. Ventricular Diastolic Filling and Function

8. Coronary Artery Disease

9. Cardiomyopathies, Hypertensive and Pulmonary Heart Disease

10. Pericardial Disease

11. Valvular Stenosis

12. Valvular Regurgitation

13. Prosthetic Valves

14. Endocarditis

15. Cardiac Masses and Potential Cardiac Source of Embolus

16. Diseases of the Great Arteries

17. The Adult with Congenital Heart Disease

18. Intraoperative and Interventional Echocardiography

Appendix
A: Normal Values for Echocardiographic Measurements
B: Evidence Tables

Product details

  • Edition: 6
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 12, 2016
  • Language: English

About the author

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Catherine M. Otto

Dr. Catherine Otto is currently the J. Ward Kennedy-Hamilton Endowed Chair in Cardiology and Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, Washington. She is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal Heart, published by the BMJ and the British Cardiovascular Society. Formerly head of the fellowship program at the University of Washington she is a highly prolific author with solid experience in teaching echocardiography skills and applications.
Affiliations and expertise
Editor-in-Chief, Heart, J. Ward Kennedy-Hamilton Endowed Chair in Cardiology, Professor of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA