Table of Contents

1. Transthoracic Three-Dimensional Echocardiography 2. Advanced Echocardiography Approaches: 3D Transesophageal Assessment of the Mitral Valve 3. Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Echocardiographic Evaluation of the Right Ventricle 4. Transthoracic and Transesophageal Echocardiography in the Catheterization Laboratory 5. Intracardiac Echocardiography for Common Interventions on Structural Heart Disease 73 6. Strain and Strain Rate Imaging 7. Assessing Twist and Torsion 8. Echocardiographic Tools for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy 9. Contrast Perfusion Echocardiography 10. Evaluation of Coronary Blood Flow by Echo Doppler 11. Stress Testing for Structural Heart Disease 12. Multimodality Cardiac Imaging-When Is Echo Not Enough? 

About the Author

MD Dr. Catherine Otto is currently the J. Ward Kennedy-Hamilton Endowed Chair in Cardiology and Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, Washington. She is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal Heart, published by the BMJ and the British Cardiovascular Society. Formerly head of the fellowship program at the University of Washington she is a highly prolific author with solid experience in teaching echocardiography skills and applications.