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Physical Principles and the Basic Exam.- Conducting a Cardiac Ultrasound Examination.- Principles of Flow Assessment.- Principles of Hemodynamic Assessment.- Strain And Strain Rate Imaging: A New Clinical Approach To Quantifying.- Transesophageal Echocardiography: Principles and Application.- Aortic Valve Disease.- Mitral Valve Disease.- Tricuspid and Pulmonic Valve Disease.- Pulmonary Hypertension Clinical Echocardiography.- Criteria for Operative Intervention in Valvular Heart Disease Based On Echocardiography.- Clinical Echocardiography Prosthetic Valves.- The Use of Echocardiography In The Diagnosis And Treatment Of Patients With Infective Endocarditis.- Pericardial Effusion, Tamponade, and Constriction.- Clinical Echocardiography, Coronary Artery Disease, Assessing Regional Wall Motion.- Stress Echocardiography.- Principles of Myocardial Viability, Implications for Echocardiography.- Echocardiography for Assessing Acute Myocardial Infarction.- Mechanical Complications of Myocardial Infarction.- Cardiomyopatihies.- Echocardiography in Heart Failure.- Cardiac Resyncronization Therapy.- Intracardiac Masses.- Aortic Disorders.- Source of Embolus.- Simple Congenital Heart Defects.- Echocardiographic Evaluation of Complex Congenital Heart Disease.- Adult Congenital Heart Disease.- Intraoperative Echocardiography.- Contrast Echocardiography.- Three-Dimensional Echocardiography.- Ultrasound Stethoscopy.- Echo-Guided Interventions.