Content Outline for the 2007 ASCeXAM

1. Physical Principles, Instrumentation, Examination Principles
   1. Routine Doppler Examination
   2. Transesophageal Echocardiography, Intraoperative Echocardiography, and Catheter-Based Echocardiography
   3. Physical Principles of Ultrasound
   4. Cross-Sectional Echocardiographic Examination
   5. Principles of Doppler Flow Measurement
   6. Cross-Sectional Scanning: Technical Principles and Instrumentation
   7. Standard Plane Positions--Standard Imaging Planes
   8. Doppler Instrumentation
   9. Principles of Flow
   10. Principles of Color Flow Mapping
   11. M-Mode Echocardiography
   12. Digital Image Processing
   13. Doppler Signal Processing, Tissue Characterization, Three Dimensional Echocardiography
2. Valvular Heart Disease
   1. Aortic Valve, Aorta, and Subvalvular Outflow Tract
   2. Mitral Valve
   3. Echo-Doppler Assessment of Prosthetic Heart Valves
   4. Echocardiographic Findings in Infective Endocarditis
   5. Fluid Dynamics of Regurgitant Jets and Their Imaging by Color Doppler
   6. Tricuspid Valve
   7. Pulmonic Valve
3. Chamber Size and Function
   1. Coronary Artery Disease, Stress Echocardiography
   2. General Considerations, Assessment of Chamber Size and Function
   3. Quantification of Segmental Dysfunction
   4. Echocardiographic Assessment of the Cardiomyopathies
   5. Diastolic Function
   6. Left Atrium, Pulmonary Veins, and Coronary Sinus
   7. Right Ventricle
   8. Interatrial and Interventricular Septa
   9. Doppler Estimation of Volumetric Flow
   10. Coronary Arteries
4. Congenital Heart Disease
   1. Complex Congenital Heart Disease
   2. Aortic Valve, Aorta, and Subvalvular Outflow Tract
   3. Tricuspid Valve
   4. Mitral Valve
   5. Doppler Estimation of Volumetric Flow
   6. Pulmonic Valve
   7. Coronary Arteries
   8. Fetal Echocardiography
5. Cardiac Masses, Pericardial Disease, Contrast and New Applications
   1. Pericardial Disease
   2. Cardiac Tumors and Masses
   3. Contrast Echocardiography
   4. Assessment of Myocardial Perfusion with Contrast Two-Dimensional Echocardiography
   5. Echocardiogram in Disorders of Cardiac Rhythm and Condition
   6. Echocardiography in Cardiac Transplantation