Clinical Manual and Review of Transesophageal Echocardiography

1. Physics of two dimensional and Doppler imaging

2. Transesophageal tomographic views

3. TEE in the operating room

4. Ventricular systolic function

5. Ventricular diastolic function

6. Valvular stenosis

7. Valvular regurgitation

8. Prosthetic Valvular Function

9. Pericardial Disease

10. Cardiomyopathies

11. Diseases of the Aorta

12. Cardiac masses

13. Congenital heart disease in the adult

a. Valvular abnormalities

b. Left Ventricular Outflow Tract and Aorta

c. Septal Defects and Shunts

d. Coronary Fistulas

e. Anomalies of Systemic and Pulmonary Venous Return

f. Complex Congenital Heart Disease

g. Common Surgical Procedures

h. Review Questions

14. Transplantation Surgery

a. Heart

b. Lung

c. Liver

d. Review Questions

15. Clinical problems

a. Positioning of Intracardiac and Intravascular Catheters/devices (Heart PortO, Transmyocardial Laser Revascularization (TMR))

b. Integration with other Monitoring Modalities

c. Myocardial Ischemia

d. Intracardiac Air

e. Hypotension

f. Hypoxemia

16. New applications

a. Contrast Echocardiography

b. Tissue Doppler

c. 3-Dimensional Echocardiography

d. Intracardiac Echocardiography

17. Appendix

a. Normal and abnormal chamber and vessel dimensions

b. Normal and abnormal Doppler flow values

c. Prosthetic valve velocities and gradients