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Echocardiography Review Guide: Companion to the Textbook of Clinical Echocardiography, Second Edition
 Authors:  Catherine M. Otto,MD, Rebecca G. Schwaegler, RDCS, and Rosario Freeman, MD
Pages:  426  Soft Cover
ISBN 13: 978-1-4377-2021-1
Saunders/ Elsevier   2011
List Price:  $109

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Ratings (1-4 , 4 being the highest):

Organization of information:    4

Usefulness of book:     3

Suitable for intended audience:    4

Author’s objectives met:      4

Significant number of illustrations:     4

Quality of illustrations:    3

Description:

Echocardiography Review Manual fully prepares you for success on the echocardiography boards, the PTEeXAM, or the diagnostic cardiac sonographer's exam. Drs. Catherine M. Otto and Rosario Freeman, along with cardiac sonographer Rebecca G. Schwaegler, clearly demonstrate how to record echos, avoid pitfalls, perform calculations, and understand the fundamentals of echocardiography for all types of cardiac disease. All-new multiple-choice review questions and answers probe your knowledge of the latest approaches, and a completely new chapter on TEE covers everything you need to know about this technique. Plus, full-text online access at www.expertconsult.com allows you to consult this resource from any computer and view additional cine images for each case, allowing more versatile and effective learning and self testing

Key Features:

  • Enhance your calculation skills for all aspects of echocardiography.
  • Challenge yourself with multiple-choice questions in every chapter - thoroughly updated in this edition - covering all of the latest information tested on exams.
  • Review essential basic principles with The Echo Manual, a consolidated, portable reference from the Textbook of Clinical Echocardiography.
  • Benefit from expert advice and easy-to-follow procedures on using and interpreting echo (including pitfalls in recording) in every chapter.

What's New in this Edition?:
 

  • Prepare for the PTEeXAM with a brand-new chapter on TEE.
  • Assess your mastery of today's clinical echocardiography with all-new questions and answers and new illustrations in every chapter.

Table of Contents:

  1. Principles of Echocardiographic Image Acquisition and Doppler Analysis
  2. The Transthoracic Echocardiogram
  3. Transesophageal Echocardiography
  4. Advanced Echocardiographic Modalities
  5. Clinical Indications
  6. Left and Right Ventricular Systolic Function
  7. Ventricular Diastolic Filling and Function
  8. Ischemic Cardiac Disease
  9. Cardiomyopathies, Hypertensive and Pulmonary Heart Disease
  10. Pericardial Disease
  11. Valvular Stenosis
  12. Valve Regurgitation
  13. Prosthetic Valves
  14. Endocarditis
  15. Cardiac Masses and Potential Cardiac Source of Embolus
  16. Echocardiographic Evaluation of the Great Vessels
  17. The Adult with Congenital Heart Disease
  18. Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiography

 

 

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