Solomon: Essential Echocardiography: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease

Section 1: Principles of Ultrasound and Instrumentation

1. Physical Principles of Ultrasound and Generation of Images

2. M-Mode Imaging

3. Principles of Contrast Echocardiography

4. Principles of Transesophageal Echocardiography

5. Principles of 3-Dimensional Ultrasound

6. Principles and Practical Aspects of Strain Echocardiography

7. Understanding Imaging Artifacts

Section 2: The Echocardiographic Examination

1. Principles of Transthoracic Imaging Acquisition: The Standard Adult Transthoracic Echocardiographic Examination

2. The Transthoracic Examination, View By View

3. Three-Dimensional Echocardiography: Image Acquisition

4. Optimization of the Patient and Equipment

5. Utilizing Contrast Echocardiography in Practice

6. Echo On-Call: Echocardiographic Emergencies

Section 3: Assessment of Cardiac Structure and Function

1. Assessment of Left Ventricular Systolic Function

2. Left Ventricular Diastolic Function

3. Assessment of Right Ventricular Structure and Function

4. Assessment of the Atria

Section 4: Echocardiography for Diseases of the Myocardium

1. Acute Myocardial Infarction

2. Mechanical Complications of Myocardial Infarction

3. Long-Term Consequences and Prognosis after Myocardial Infarction

4. Echocardiography in Heart Failure

5. Dilated Cardiomyopathies

6. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

7. Restrictive and Infiltrative Cardiomyopathies

8. Echocardiography in Assessment of Cardiac Synchrony

9. Echocardiography in Assessment of Ventricular Assist Devices

10. Stress Echocardiography and Echo in Cardiopulmonary Testing

Section 5: Valvular Heart Disease

1. Mitral Valve Disease

2. Aortic Valve Disease

3. Tricuspid and Pulmonic Valve Disease

4. Prosthetic Valves

5. Echocardiography in Percutaneous Valvular Intervention

Section 6: Diseases of the Pericardium and Great Vessels

1. Pericardial Disease

2. Diseases of the Aorta

Section 7: Diseases of the Pulmonary Artery and Veins

1. Pulmonary Embolism

2. Pulmonary Hypertension

Section 8: Cardiac Masses

1. Primary and Secondary Tumors

2. Identification of Intracardiac Thrombus

3. Other Cardiac Masses

Section 9: Systemic Diseases Involving the Heart

1. Echocardiography in Infective Endocarditis

2. Other Systemic Diseases and the Heart

3. Echocardiography in Malignant Disease

Section 10: Congenital Heart Disease in the Adult

1. Atrial Septal Defect

2. Ventricular Septal Defect

3. Other Common Congenital Defects in Adults

Section 11: Miscellaneous Topics in Echocardiography

1. Handheld Echocardiography

2. Appropriate Use of Echocardiography

3. Echocardiography in the Context of Other Cardiac Imaging Modalities

4. Transesophageal Echocardiography for Cardiac Surgery

Appendix A: Reference Tables

Appendix B: Commonly Utilized Equations in Echocardiography