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Cardiovascular Diseases

Echo Fiesta: An In-Depth Review of Adult Echocardiography for Sonographers and Physicians

Saturday, March 23

Time Topic
7:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
  Cardiomyopathies, Pericardial Disease, and Heart Failure
Moderator: Steven J. Lester, M.D.
8:00 a.m. Dilated Cardiomyopathy, Echo, Evaluation, and Role in Device Interventions (CRT and LVAD)
Steven J. Lester, M.D.
8:30 a.m. Hypertropic Cardiomyopathy: Evaluation and Differential Diagnosis: Implications for Risk Stratification and Management
William K. Freeman, M.D.
9:00 a.m. Restrictive Cardiomyopathy and Other Unusual Causes of Heart Failure
Vuyisile T. Nkomo, M.D.
9:30 a.m. Pericardial Disease: Constrictive Pericarditis and Cardiac Tamponade; Evaluation by Echocardiography, Technique of Echo-Directed Pericardiocentesis
Fletcher A. Miller, Jr., M.D.
10:10 a.m. Questions and Comments
Drs. Lester, Freeman, Nkomo, and Miller
10:20 a.m. Refreshment Break
  Ischemic Heart Disease
Moderator: Steven J. Lester, M.D.
10:40 a.m. Stress Echocardiography: RWMA Interpretation, Applications, and Prognostication; The Role of Contrast Imaging
Robert B. McCully, M.D.
11:10 a.m. Mechanical Complications of Myocardial Infarction
Sabrina Phillips, M.D.
11:40 a.m. Case Studies in Stress Echocardiography
Robert B. McCully, M.D.
12:30 p.m. Adjourn