Echocardiography Review Guide: Companion to the Textbook of Clinical Echocardiography, 2nd Edition - Expert Consult: Online and Print

Echocardiography Review Manual fully prepares you for success on the echocardiography boards, the PTEeXAM, or the diagnostic cardiac sonographer's exam. Drs. Catherine M. Otto and Rosario Freeman, along with cardiac sonographer Rebecca G. Schwaegler, clearly demonstrate how to record echos, avoid pitfalls, perform calculations, and understand the fundamentals of echocardiography for all types of cardiac disease. All-new multiple-choice review questions and answers probe your knowledge of the latest approaches, and a completely new chapter on TEE covers everything you need to know about this technique. Plus, full-text online access at www.expertconsult.com allows you to consult this resource from any computer and view additional cine images for each case, allowing more versatile and effective learning and self testing.



Features:
Enhance your calculation skills for all aspects of echocardiography.

Challenge yourself with multiple-choice questions in every chapter - thoroughly updated in this edition - covering all of the latest information tested on exams.


Review essential basic principles with The Echo Manual, a consolidated, portable reference from the Textbook of Clinical Echocardiography.


Benefit from expert advice and easy-to-follow procedures on using and interpreting echo (including pitfalls in recording) in every chapter.

New To This Edition:
Prepare for the PTEeXAM with a brand-new chapter on TEE.

Assess your mastery of today’s clinical echocardiography with all-new questions and answers and new illustrations in every chapter.

Access the complete contents online at www.expertconsult.com, and get more benefit from each case with additional cine images online.

Table Of Contents:
Echocardiography Review Guide, 2nd Edition: Companion to the Textbook of Clinical Echocardiography

Rosario V. Freeman, MD, Rebecca G. Schwaegler, RDCS, Catherine M. Otto, MD



Principles of Echocardiographic Image Acquisition and Doppler Analysis


The Transthoracic Echocardiogram


Transesophageal Echocardiography


Advanced Echocardiographic Modalities


Clinical Indications


Left and Right Ventricular Systolic Function


Ventricular Diastolic Filling and Function


Ischemic Cardiac Disease


Cardiomyopathies, Hypertensive and Pulmonary Heart Disease


Pericardial Disease


Valvular Stenosis


Valve Regurgitation


Prosthetic Valves


Endocarditis


Cardiac Masses and Potential Cardiac Source of Embolus


Echocardiographic Evaluation of the Great Vessels


The Adult with Congenital Heart Disease


Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiography