Section 1: Advanced Principles for the Echocardiographer

1. The Diagnostic Echocardiography Laboratory: Structure, Standards and Quality Improvement

2. 3D Echocardiography: Principles of Image Acquisition, Display and Analysis

3. The Comprehensive Diagnostic Transesophageal Echocardiogram: Integrating 2D and 3D Imaging, Doppler Quantitation and Advanced Approaches

4. Intraoperative and Procedural Echocardiography: Basic Principles

5. Intracardiac Echocardiography

6. Point of Care Echocardiography: Scope of Practice, Quality Assurance and Impact on Patient Outcomes

Section 2: The Left Ventricle

1. Left Ventricular Structure and Systolic Function: Quantitative Echocardiography

2. Myocardial Mechanics: Velocity, Strain, Strain Rate, Cardiac Synchrony and Twist

3. Left Ventricular Diastolic Function

4. Digital Image Processing and Automated Image Analysis in Echocardiography

Section 3: Ischemic Heart Disease

1. Echocardiography in the Emergency Department: Role in Patients with Acute Chest Pain

2. Echocardiography in the Coronary Care Unit: Management of Acute Myocardial Infarction, Detection of Complications and Prognostic Implications

3. Exercise Echocardiography for Diagnosis of Coronary Disease

4. Non-Exercise Stress Echocardiography for Diagnosis of Coronary Disease

Section 4: Valvular Heart Disease

1. Aortic Stenosis: Disease Severity, Progression, and Timing of Intervention

2. Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation: Role of Echocardiography in Patient Selection, Procedural Planning and Monitoring and Evaluation of Outcomes

3. Aortic Valve Regurgitation: Quantitation of Disease Severity and Timing of Surgical Intervention

4. Mitral Regurgitation: Valve Anatomy, Regurgitant Severity and Timing Of Intervention. (Including Secondary MR)

5. Surgical Mitral Valve Repair: Patient Selection, Operative Planning and Intra-Operative Monitoring

6. Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair: Role of Echocardiography in Patient Selection, Procedural Guidance and Evaluation of Outcomes

7. Mitral Stenosis: Patient Selection, Hemodynamic Results, Complications and Long-Term Outcome with Balloon Mitral Commissurotomy

8. Endocarditis: the Role of Echocardiography in Diagnosis and Decision-Making

9. Fluid Dynamics of Prosthetic Valves

10. Prosthetic Valve Dysfunction: Echocardiographic Recognition and Quantitation (Including Paravalvular Regurgitation and Closure)

Section 5: Cardiomyopathies and Pericardial Disease

1. Dilated Cardiomyopathy: Role of Echocardiography in Diagnosis and Patient Management

2. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Echocardiography in Diagnosis and Management of Patients (Including Stress Testing)

3. Restrictive Cardiomyopathy: Diagnosis and Prognostic Implications

4. Pericardial Disease

5. Cardiac Transplantation: Pre and Post Transplant Evaluation

Section 6: The Right Heart

1. Right Ventricular Anatomy, Function and Echocardiographic Evaluation

2. Pulmonary Hypertension: Role of Echocardiography in Diagnosis and Patient Management

3. Right Sided Valve Disease in Adults

Section 7: Vascular And Systemic Diseases

1. Aortic Dissection and Trauma: Value and Limitations of Echocardiography

2. Systemic Diseases Characterized by Immune-Mediated Injury: Echocardiographic Findings

3. Nutritional and Metabolic Disorders (Include Alcohol, Sleep Apnea, Liver Disease, Diabetes, Obesity): Echocardiographic Findings

4. Echocardiography in Athletes

5. Inherited Connective Tissue Disorders: the Role of Echocardiography in Diagnosis and Decision-Making

6. Aging Changes Seen on Echocardiography

7. Echocardiographic Evaluation of Patients with a Systemic Embolic Event

8. The Role of Echocardiography in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation and Flutter

9. Cardiac Tumors

Section 8: Adult Congenital Heart Disease and the Pregnant Patient

1. Heart Disease in Pregnancy

2. Congenita