Andrew Houghton MA(Oxon), DM, BM BCh, FRCP (Lond) Consultant Cardiologist and Clinical Head of Echocardiography, Grantham and District Hospital, Grantham, Lincolnshire, UKDr Andrew R. Houghton studied medicine at the University of Oxford and undertook postgraduate training in Nottingham and Leicester. He was appointed as consultant cardiologist at Grantham & District Hospital in Lincolnshire, UK, in 2002. His subspecialty interest is in non-invasive cardiac imaging, in particular echocardiography and cardiovascular MRI. He has been a member of the British Society of Echocardiography’s departmental accreditation committee, and a lecturer at BSE annual congresses.Dr Houghton has co-authored a number of textbooks, including Making Sense of the ECG (now in its fifth edition) and its companion volume Making Sense of the ECG: Cases for Self-Assessment, and is also a faculty member at the Medmastery online medical education website. Making Sense of the ECG has won several awards, including the Royal Society of Medicine’s Richard Asher prize and the British Medical Association’s Student Textbook Award, while Making Sense of Echocardiography was highly commended at the BMA Medical Book Awards.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsAuthor biographyAcronyms and abbreviationsPart 1 Essential principles1. History of echocardiography2. Cardiac anatomy and physiology3. Physics and instrumentation4. Doppler physics5. Myocardial mechanics6. Service provisionPart 2 Cardiac imaging techniques7. The standard transthoracic echo study8. Transoesophageal echo9. Stress echo10. Contrast echo11. Tissue Doppler imaging12. Speckle tracking13. 3D echo14. Intravascular ultrasound and epicardial echo15. Alternative cardiac imaging techniquesPart 3 Clinical cases16. The left ventricle and its systolic function17. Coronary artery disease and regional left ventricular function18. Left ventricular diastolic function19. The left atrium20. The aortic valve21. The mitral valve22. The right ventricle 23. The right atrium24. The tricuspid valve25. The pulmonary valve26. Pulmonary hypertension27. Heart valve repair and replacement28. Endocarditis29. The cardiomyopathies30. The pericardium31. The aorta 32. Cardiac masses33. Congenital heart disease34. Common echo requestsAppendix - Echo resourcesIndex

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Andrew Houghton MA(Oxon), DM, BM BCh, FRCP (Lond) Consultant Cardiologist and Clinical Head of Echocardiography, Grantham and District Hospital, Grantham, Lincolnshire, UKDr Andrew R. Houghton studied medicine at the University of Oxford and undertook postgraduate training in Nottingham and Leicester. He was appointed as consultant cardiologist at Grantham & District Hospital in Lincolnshire, UK, in 2002. His subspecialty interest is in non-invasive cardiac imaging, in particular echocardiography and cardiovascular MRI. He has been a member of the British Society of Echocardiography’s departmental accreditation committee, and a lecturer at BSE annual congresses.Dr Houghton has co-authored a number of textbooks, including Making Sense of the ECG (now in its fifth edition) and its companion volume Making Sense of the ECG: Cases for Self-Assessment, and is also a faculty member at the Medmastery online medical education website. Making Sense of the ECG has won several awards, including the Royal Society of Medicine’s Richard Asher prize and the British Medical Association’s Student Textbook Award, while Making Sense of Echocardiography was highly commended at the BMA Medical Book Awards.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsAuthor biographyAcronyms and abbreviationsPart 1 Essential principles1. History of echocardiography2. Cardiac anatomy and physiology3. Physics and instrumentation4. Doppler physics5. Myocardial mechanics6. Service provisionPart 2 Cardiac imaging techniques7. The standard transthoracic echo study8. Transoesophageal echo9. Stress echo10. Contrast echo11. Tissue Doppler imaging12. Speckle tracking13. 3D echo14. Intravascular ultrasound and epicardial echo15. Alternative cardiac imaging techniquesPart 3 Clinical cases16. The left ventricle and its systolic function17. Coronary artery disease and regional left ventricular function18. Left ventricular diastolic function19. The left atrium20. The aortic valve21. The mitral valve22. The right ventricle 23. The right atrium24. The tricuspid valve25. The pulmonary valve26. Pulmonary hypertension27. Heart valve repair and replacement28. Endocarditis29. The cardiomyopathies30. The pericardium31. The aorta 32. Cardiac masses33. Congenital heart disease34. Common echo requestsAppendix - Echo resourcesIndex

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Andrew Houghton MA(Oxon), DM, BM BCh, FRCP (Lond) Consultant Cardiologist and Clinical Head of Echocardiography, Grantham and District Hospital, Grantham, Lincolnshire, UKDr Andrew R. Houghton studied medicine at the University of Oxford and undertook postgraduate training in Nottingham and Leicester. He was appointed as consultant cardiologist at Grantham & District Hospital in Lincolnshire, UK, in 2002. His subspecialty interest is in non-invasive cardiac imaging, in particular echocardiography and cardiovascular MRI. He has been a member of the British Society of Echocardiography’s departmental accreditation committee, and a lecturer at BSE annual congresses.Dr Houghton has co-authored a number of textbooks, including Making Sense of the ECG (now in its fifth edition) and its companion volume Making Sense of the ECG: Cases for Self-Assessment, and is also a faculty member at the Medmastery online medical education website. Making Sense of the ECG has won several awards, including the Royal Society of Medicine’s Richard Asher prize and the British Medical Association’s Student Textbook Award, while Making Sense of Echocardiography was highly commended at the BMA Medical Book Awards.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsAuthor biographyAcronyms and abbreviationsPart 1 Essential principles1. History of echocardiography2. Cardiac anatomy and physiology3. Physics and instrumentation4. Doppler physics5. Myocardial mechanics6. Service provisionPart 2 Cardiac imaging techniques7. The standard transthoracic echo study8. Transoesophageal echo9. Stress echo10. Contrast echo11. Tissue Doppler imaging12. Speckle tracking13. 3D echo14. Intravascular ultrasound and epicardial echo15. Alternative cardiac imaging techniquesPart 3 Clinical cases16. The left ventricle and its systolic function17. Coronary artery disease and regional left ventricular function18. Left ventricular diastolic function19. The left atrium20. The aortic valve21. The mitral valve22. The right ventricle 23. The right atrium24. The tricuspid valve25. The pulmonary valve26. Pulmonary hypertension27. Heart valve repair and replacement28. Endocarditis29. The cardiomyopathies30. The pericardium31. The aorta 32. Cardiac masses33. Congenital heart disease34. Common echo requestsAppendix - Echo resourcesIndex

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