Clinical Echocardiography Review: A Self-Assessment Tool

Your instant access VST digital comes with over 340 online video clips enable readers to review real-life case studies to build knowledge for clinical use.Stay current with the latest advances and clinical applications of cardiac echo with Clinical Echocardiography Review: A Self-Assessment Tool, Third Edition. Edited by Drs. Allan L. Klein, Craig R. Asher, and Michael Chetrit, and written by national and international experts from the Cleveland Clinic and other leading institutions, this best-selling review tool offers a self-paced, highly effective way to assess and expand your knowledge of echocardiography and improve comprehension and retention of vital information. The fully updated Third Edition is an excellent educational resource for cardiologists, fellows, anesthesiologists, critical care physicians, and sonographers at all levels of experience.

Table of Contents:

1 Physics: Fundamentals of Ultrasound Imaging and Instrumentation (Part 1)

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Chapter 1: Interactive Questions

2 Physics: Basic Principles (Part 2)

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Chapter 2: Interactive Questions

3 Cardiac Ultrasound Artifacts

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Chapter 3: Interactive Questions

4 M-Mode Echocardiography

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Chapter 4: Interactive Questions

5 Assessment of Chamber Quantification

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Chapter 5: Interactive Questions

6 Three-Dimensional Echocardiography

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Chapter 6: Interactive Questions

7 Transesophageal Echocardiography and Intraoperative Echocardiography

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Chapter 7: Interactive Questions

8 Doppler and Hemodynamics

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Chapter 8: Interactive Questions

9 Tissue Doppler and Strain

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Chapter 9: Interactive Questions

10 Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Imaging

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Chapter 10: Interactive Questions

11 Systolic Function Assessment

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Chapter 11: Interactive Questions

12 Diastology

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Chapter 12: Interactive Questions

13 Stress Echocardiography: Ischemic and Nonischemic

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Chapter 13: Interactive Questions

14 Dyssynchrony Evaluation/Atrioventricular Optimization

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Chapter 14: Interactive Questions

15 Aortic Stenosis

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16 Aortic Regurgitation

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Chapter 16: Interactive Questions

17 Mitral Regurgitation

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Chapter 17: Interactive Questions

18 Mitral Stenosis

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Chapter 18: Interactive Questions

19 Pulmonic and Tricuspid Valvular Disease

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Chapter 19: Interactive Questions

20 Prosthetic Valves

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Chapter 20: Interactive Questions

21 Endocarditis

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Chapter 21: Interactive Questions

22 Interventional Echocardiography: Mitral, Aortic, and Prosthetic Valve Interventions

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Chapter 22: Interactive Questions

23 Interventional Echocardiography: Tricuspid Valve, Septum, Left Atrial Appendage, and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

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Chapter 23: Interactive Questions

24 Cardiomyopathies

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25 Durable and Temporary Left Ventricular Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices and Orthotopic Heart Transplantation

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Chapter 25: Interactive Questions

26 Systemic Disease

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Chapter 26: Interactive Questions

27 Pericardial Diseases

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Chapter 27: Interactive Questions

28 Aortic Diseases

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Chapter 28: Interactive Questions

29 Atrial Fibrillation

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Chapter 29: Interactive Questions

30 Right Ventricular Disease and Pulmonary Hypertension

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Chapter 30: Interactive Questions

31 Tumors, Masses, and Source of Emboli

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Chapter 31: Interactive Questions

32 Noncyanotic Congenital Heart Disease

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Chapter 32: Interactive Questions

33 Cyanotic Congenital Heart Disease

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Chapter 33: Interactive Questions

34 Cardiovascular Point-of-Care Ultrasound for the Noncardiologist

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Chapter 34: Interactive Questions

35 New Technologies and Expanding Utility of Ultrasound

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Chapter 35: Interactive Questions

Appendix Equations and Formulas