Part one: Advanced echocardiographic techniques -- Transesophageal echocardiography / Ian G. Burwash and Kwan-Leung Chan -- Monitoring ventricular function in the operating room: impact on clinical outcome / Donald C. Oxorn -- Contrast ultrasound imaging: methods, analysis, and applications / Thomas R. Porter and Feng Xie -- Three-dimensional echocardiography / Michael H. Picard -- Tissue doppler and speckle tracking echocardiography / Otto A. Smiseth and Thor Edvardsen -- Intracardiac echocardiography / Thomas Bartel [and others] -- Intravascular ultrasound: principles and clinical applications / Neil J. Weissman and Gary S. Mintz -- Hand-carried ultrasound / Martin E. Goldman and Lori B. Croft -- Part two: The left ventricle -- Quantitative evaluation of left ventricular structure, wall stress, and systolic function / Gerard P. Aurigemma and William H. Gaasch -- Ventricular shape and function / Florence H. Sheehan -- Assessment of diastolic function by echocardiography / Milind Y. Desai and Allan L. Klein -- Echocardiographic digital image processing and approaches to automated border detection / Johan G. Bosch -- Part three: Ischemic heart disease -- The role of echocardiographic evaluation in patients presenting with acute chest pain in the emergency room / Sarah Weeks and Kirsten E. Fleischmann -- Echocardiography in the coronary care unit: management of acute myocardial infarction, detection of complications, and prognostic implications / Ivor L. Gerber and Elyse Foster -- Exercise echocardiography / Rosario V. Freeman -- Stress echocardiography with nonexercise techniques: principles, protocols, interpretation, and clinical applications / Thomas H. Marwick -- Echocardiographic evaluation of coronary blood flow: approaches and clinical applications / Nozomi Watanabe.

Part four: Valvular heart disease -- Quantitation of valvular regurgitation / Judy Hung -- Timing of intervention for chronic valve regurgitation: the role of echocardiography / Catherine M. Otto -- Intraoperative echocardiography in mitral valve repair / William J. Stewart and Brian P. Griffin -- Echocardiography in the patient undergoing catheter ballon mitral valvuloplasty: patient selection, hemodynamic results, complications, and log-term outcome / Bernard Iung and Alec Vahanian -- Clinical decision making in patients with endocarditis: the role of echocardiography / Christopher H. Cabell -- Aortic stenosis: echocardiographic evaluation of disease severity, disease progression, and the role of echocardiography in clinical decision making / Raphael Rosenhek -- Fluid dynamics of prosthetic valves / Ajit P. Yoganathan and Brandon R. Travis -- Echocardiographic recognition and quantitation of prosthetic valve dysfunction / Miguel Zabalgoitia -- Echocardiographic recognition of unusual complications after surgery on the great vessels and cardiac valves / William A. Zoghbi -- Part five: Cardiomyopathies and pericardial disease -- Doppler echocardiography in heart failure and cardiac resynchronization / Martin St. John Sutton -- Echocardiography in the evaluation and management of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy / Anna Woo, E. Douglas Wigle, and Harry Rakowski -- Restrictive cardiomyopathy: diagnosis and prognostic implications / Tasneem Z. Naqvi -- Pericardial disease / Brad I. Munt, Robert R. Moss, and Christopher R. Thompson -- End-stage heart failure: ventricular assist devices and the posttransplant patient / Audrey H. Wu.

Part six: The pregnant patient -- Role of echocardiography in the diagnosis and management of heart disease in pregnancy / Karen K. Stout -- Part seven: Vascular and systemic diseases -- Aortic dissection and trauma: value and limitations of echocardiography / Husam H. Farah and Ann F. Bolger -- Hypertension: impact of echocardiographic data on the mechanism of hypertension, treatment, options, prognosis, and assessment of therapy / John S. Gottdiener -- Echocardiographic findings in acute and chronic respiratory disease / Paul R. Forfia and Susan E. Wiegers -- Echocardiographic findings in systemic diseases characterized by immune-mediated injury / Carlos A. Roldan -- Echocardiography in the evaluation of cardiac disease resulting from endocrinopathies, renal disease, obesity, and nutritional deficiencies / Marcus F. Stoddard -- Echocardiography in patients with inherited connective tissue disorders / Mark Lewin -- Aging changes seen on echocardiography / Michael A. Chen -- Echocardiographic evaluation of the patient with a systemic embolic event / Edmond W. Chen and Rita F. Redberg -- The role of echocardiography in atrial fibrillation and flutter / Warren J. Manning -- Part eight: Adult congenital heart disease and cardiac tumors -- General echocardiographic approach to the adult with suspected congenital heart disease / Michelle Gurvitz -- Echocardiographic evaluation of the adult with unoperated congenital heart disease / Mary Etta E. King -- Echocardiographic evaluation of the adult with postoperative congenital heart disease / John S. Child -- Cardiac tumors / Charles J. Bruce.