Textbook of Clinical Echocardiography

Dr. Catherine Otto is currently the J. Ward Kennedy-Hamilton Endowed Chair in Cardiology and Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, Washington. She is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal Heart, published by the BMJ and the British Cardiovascular Society. Formerly head of the fellowship program at the University of Washington she is a highly prolific author with solid experience in teaching echocardiography skills and applications.

• 1. Principles of Echocardiographic Image Acquisition and Doppler Analysis2. Normal Anatomy and Flow Patterns on Transthoracic Echocardiography3. Transesophageal Echocardiography4. Specialized Echocardiography Applications5. Clinical Indications and Quality Assurance6. Left and Right Ventricular Systolic function7. Ventricular Diastolic Filling and Function8. Coronary Artery Disease9. Cardiomyopathies, Hypertensive and Pulmonary Heart Disease10. Pericardial Disease11. Valvular Stenosis12. Valvular Regurgitation13. Prosthetic Valves14. Endocarditis15. Cardiac Masses and Potential Cardiac Source of Embolus16. Diseases of the Great Arteries17. The Adult With Congenital Heart Disease18. Intraoperative and Interventional Echocardiography