Pocket Guide to Echocardiography

Forward Preface Abbreviations 2. Comprehensive TTE examination protocol 3. Indications and Contraindications and endpoints of DSE/ESE 4. Useful formulas and normal values 5. Guidelines for the safe use of echocardiography contrast 6. Atrial and Ventricul dimensions 7. Coronary artery territories diagram 8. LV systolic function and LV diastolic patterns 9. RV systolic function and RV diastolic patterns 10. Dilated, Hypertrophic and Restrictive Cardiomyopathies 11. Pericardial effusion, Cardiac Tamponade, Constrictive Pericarditis 12. Mitral Stenosis 13. Mitral valvuloplasty score 14. Recommendations for data recording and measurement for MS 15. Mitral Regurgitation 16. Aortic Regurgitation 17. Aortic Stenosis 18. Recommendations for data recording and measurement for AS 19. Resolution of apparent discrepancies in measures of AS severity 20. Pulmonary HTN, Pulmonic Stenosis, Pulmonic Regurgitation 21. Tricuspid Regurgitation & Tricuspid Stenosis 22. Infective Endocarditis 23. ACC/ASE Recommendations for Echocardiography in IE 24. Prosthetic valves 25. Normal Echocardiographic Values for Prosthetic Valves 26. Congenital heart disease 27. Miscellaneous 28. Aortic diseases 29. Indication for Surgery in Aortic diseases 30. TTE and Doppler protocols for assessment of ventricular dyssynchrony 31. Indications /Contraindications and complications of TEE 32. Routine approach to any TEE view and recommended views for evaluation of aorta 33. TEE probe orientation 34. Diagrams of standard TEE views 35. TEE measurements 36. TEE diagram of the regional blood supply to cardiac wall segments 37. TEE orientation for assessment of the mitral valve 38. Diagrams of TEE views in the evaluation of the mitral valve 39. References and recommended literature 40. Supplement