Ideally suited for those clinicians who have already mastered basic principles, The Practice of Clinical Echocardiography, 6th Edition, provides expert guidance on interpreting echocardiographic images and Doppler flow data. Through practical, clear, and carefully edited content, world-renowned expert Dr. Catherine M. Otto and her team of more than 65 leaders in echocardiography demonstrate how to apply advanced knowledge to daily clinical decision making. Newly reorganized sections cover advanced principles for the echocardiographer, best practices for echocardiography laboratories, transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography, intraoperative and interventional echocardiography, and point-of-care cardiac ultrasound.

• Provides an in-depth, clear, and concise review of the latest clinical applications of echocardiography with an advanced level of discussion, now thoroughly updated with new clinical knowledge, new treatments and guidelines, the latest evidence, and innovations in advanced echocardiographic imaging.
• Reviews the technical aspects of data acquisition and analysis with an emphasis on outcomes.
• Covers key topics such as transcatheter interventions for valvular heart disease, prosthetic valve dysfunction, the athletic heart, cardiac assist devices, cardio-oncology, heart disease in pregnancy, advanced 3D echocardiography, strain imaging, stress echocardiography, and much more.
• Includes updated illustrations throughout―nearly 1,000 echocardiograms, Doppler tracings, anatomic drawings, and flow charts for diagnostic approaches―as well as hundreds of echo video clips keyed to images in the text.
• Discusses limitations, pitfalls, and alternate approaches.
• Features chapter summary boxes with new “Quick Reviews” and a practical approach to echocardiographic data acquisition, measurement, and interpretation.

Review

“The quality of the content of the book is excellent. Given the complexity of the text and subject manner, this book is a valuable resource for cardiologists and cardiology fellows to further their knowledge and understanding of echocardiography. The text is organized in a way that allows readers to build an advancing framework to better grasp more advanced topics. The sixth edition provides updated guidelines and treatment strategies based on up-to-date research that was not present in the previous edition.” – ©Doody’s Review Service, 2021, Matthew Alan Colna, MD (East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine) Doody’s Score: 99 – 5 Stars!

Review

Master current echocardiography applications at an advanced level

Contents

۱. ۳D Echocardiographic Image Acquisition, Display, and Analysis
۲. Principles of Myocardial Mechanics and Strain Imaging
۳. Contrast Echocardiography
۴. Quantitative Analysis of Left Ventricular Anatomy and Systolic Function
۵. Left Ventricular Diastolic Function
۶. Right Ventricular Anatomy and Function
۷. Diagnostic Echocardiography Laboratory : Structure, Standards, and Quality Improvement
۸. Comprehensive Diagnostic Transthoracic and Transesophageal Echocardiography
۹. Intraoperative Echocardiography
۱۰. Interventional Echocardiography
۱۱. Focused Cardiac Ultrasound at the Bedside
۱۲. Dilated Cardiomyopathy
۱۳. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
۱۴. Restrictive Cardiomyopathy
۱۵. Cardiac Transplantation
۱۶. Cardiac Assist Devices
۱۷. Pericardial Disease
۱۸. Cardiac Tumors and Cardio-oncology
۱۹. Stress Echocardiography for Detecting Coronary Ischemia
۲۰. Nonexercise Stress Echocardiography for Diagnosis of Coronary Disease
۲۱. Role of Echocardiography in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome
۲۲. Aortic Stenosis (Including Evaluation for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement)
۲۳. Aortic Regurgitation
۲۴. Mitral Regurgitation : Valve Anatomy, Regurgitant Severity, and Timing of Intervention
۲۵. Transesophageal Echocardiography for Surgical Repair of Mitral Regurgitation
۲۶. Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair
۲۷. Mitral Stenosis
۲۸. Right-Sided Valve Disease in Adults
۲۹. Endocarditis
۳۰. Fluid Dynamics of Prosthetic Valves
۳۱. Echocardiographic Recognition and Quantitation of Prosthetic Valve Dysfunction
۳۲. Acute Aortic Syndromes
۳۳. Inherited Connective Tissue Disorders
۳۴. Hypertensive Heart Disease and Nutritional and Metabolic Disorders
۳۵. The Athletic Heart on Echocardiography
۳۶. Pulmonary Hypertension
۳۷. Systemic Diseases Characterized by Immune-Mediated Injury
۳۸. Echocardiographic Evaluation of Patients With a Systemic Embolic Event
۳۹. Echocardiography in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Flutter
۴۰. Heart Disease in Pregnancy
۴۱. Congenital Shunts
۴۲. Left Heart Anomalies
۴۳. Right Heart Anomalies
۴۴. Complex Conotruncal Anomalies
۴۵. Transposition of the Great Arteries
۴۶. Single Ventricles