Echocardiography Focus Session

Echocardiography Focus Session
The Focus Session onEchocardiography is a full-day session running concurrently with the Mayo CV Board Review Course.The session is geared towards cardiology fellows and practicing cardiologists with basic knowledge of Echocardiography. The session will be entirely based on echocardiography cases and cover the following areas: Doppler hemodynamics, evaluation of systolic and diastolic function, coronary artery disease, valvular heart diseases, cardiomyopathies, pericardial disease, cardiac conditions due to systemic diseases, echocardiography in heart failure, transesophageal echocardiography, tissue Doppler and strain imaging and evaluation of mechanical dyssynchrony for CRT. Use of echocardiography in clinical patient management will be emphasized.

Echo Focus Session Objectives
At the conclusion of this session, the participants should be able to:

• Utilize Echo and Dopplerinformation for management of patients with various cardiovascular conditions.
• Identify new echocardiographic modalities for clinical use such as tissue Doppler and strain imaging.
• Recognize common and unusual cardiovascular conditions confidently by echocardiography.

Echo Focus Session Schedule
See the Echo Focus Session Schedule under the list of Program Schedules

Echo Focus Session Registration Fee
$99 if also attending Cardiology Board Review