Practice of Clinical Echocardiography

Description

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.

Key Features

• Disease-oriented chapters emphasize the role of echocardiography in clinical decision making and prediction of clinical outcomes.
• New chapters cover emerging technologies, including transcatheter procedures for structural heart disease.
• Numerous images illustrate findings, while diagrams explain pathophysiology and flow charts guide clinical practice.
• Each chapter includes a summary box with a practical approach to echo data acquisition, measurement, and interpretation.
• Expert Consult digital book for your phone and tablet is included at no cost with the print book.
• Echo images play in real time when clicked on your smart device or online.

Table of Contents

1. 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
2. Section 2: The Left Ventricle
   1. Left Ventricular Structure and Systolic Function: Quantitative Echocardiography
   2. Myocardial Mechanics: Velocity, Strain, Strain Rate, Cardiac Synchrony and Twist
   3. Left Ventricular Diastolic Function
   4. Digital Image Processing and Automated Image Analysis in Echocardiography
3. Section 3: Ischemic Heart Disease
   1. Echocardiography in the Emergency Department: Role in Patients with Acute Chest Pain
   2. Echocardiography in the Coronary Care Unit: Management of Acute Myocardial Infarction, Detection of Complications and Prognostic Implications
   3. Exercise Echocardiography for Diagnosis of Coronary Disease
   4. Non-Exercise Stress Echocardiography for Diagnosis of Coronary Disease
4. Section 4: Valvular Heart Disease
   1. Aortic Stenosis: Disease Severity, Progression, and Timing of Intervention
   2. Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation: Role of Echocardiography in Patient Selection, Procedural Planning and Monitoring and Evaluation of Outcomes
   3. Aortic Valve Regurgitation: Quantitation of Disease Severity and Timing of Surgical Intervention
   4. Mitral Regurgitation: Valve Anatomy, Regurgitant Severity and Timing Of Intervention. (Including Secondary MR)
   5. Surgical Mitral Valve Repair: Patient Selection, Operative Planning and Intra-Operative Monitoring
   6. Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair: Role of Echocardiography in Patient Selection, Procedural Guidance and Evaluation of Outcomes
   7. Mitral Stenosis: Patient Selection, Hemodynamic Results, Complications and Long-Term Outcome with Balloon Mitral Commissurotomy
   8. Endocarditis: the Role of Echocardiography in Diagnosis and Decision-Making
   9. Fluid Dynamics of Prosthetic Valves
   10. Prosthetic Valve Dysfunction: Echocardiographic Recognition and Quantitation (Including Paravalvular Regurgitation and Closure)
5. Section 5: Cardiomyopathies and Pericardial Disease 
   1. Dilated Cardiomyopathy: Role of Echocardiography in Diagnosis and Patient Management
   2. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Echocardiography in Diagnosis and Management of Patients (Including Stress Testing)
   3. Restrictive Cardiomyopathy: Diagnosis and Prognostic Implications
   4. Pericardial Disease
   5. Cardiac Transplantation: Pre and Post Transplant Evaluation
6. Section 6: The Right Heart 
   1. Right Ventricular Anatomy, Function and Echocardiographic Evaluation
   2. Pulmonary Hypertension: Role of Echocardiography in Diagnosis and Patient Management
   3. Right Sided Valve Disease in Adults
7. Section 7: Vascular And Systemic Diseases
   1. Aortic Dissection and Trauma: Value and Limitations of Echocardiography
   2. Systemic Diseases Characterized by Immune-Mediated Injury: Echocardiographic Findings
   3. Nutritional and Metabolic Disorders (Include Alcohol, Sleep Apnea, Liver Disease, Diabetes, Obesity): Echocardiographic Findings
   4. Echocardiography in Athletes
   5. Inherited Connective Tissue Disorders: the Role of Echocardiography in Diagnosis and Decision-Making
   6. Aging Changes Seen on Echocardiography
   7. Echocardiographic Evaluation of Patients with a Systemic Embolic Event
   8. The Role of Echocardiography in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation and Flutter
   9. Cardiac Tumors
8. Section 8: Adult Congenital Heart Disease and the Pregnant Patient
   1. Heart Disease in Pregnancy
   2. Congenital Shunts
   3. Left Heart Anomalies
   4. Right Heart Anomalies
   5. Conotruncal Lesions Including Tetralogy of Fallot
   6. Transposition of the Great Arteries
   7. Single Ventricles

Editor Biography

Dr Catherine Otto is lead author/editor of 5 of Elsevier’s successful cardiology titles, each with a distinctive use case and primary market:

• Otto Textbook of Clinical Echocardiography
• Otto The Practice of Clinical Echocardiography
• Otto Echocardiography Review Guide
• Otto Valvular Heart Disease: A Companion to Braunwald’s Heart Disease
• Oxorn/Otto Intraoperative and Interventional Echocardiography

Affiliations and Expertise
J. Ward Kennedy-Hamilton Endowed Chair in Cardiology, Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington