Echocardiography review guide : companion to the Textbook of clinical echocardiography / Catherine M. Otto, Rebecca Gibbons Schwaegler, Rosario V. Freeman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Principles of echocardiographic image acquisition and doppler analysis -- The transthoracic echocardiogram -- The transesophageal echocardiogram -- Advanced echocardiographic modalities -- Clinical indications for echocardiography -- Left and right ventricular systolic function -- Ventricular diastolic filling and function -- Ischemic cardiac disease -- Cardiomyopathies, hypertensive heart disease, 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.