This course has been designed both for cardiologists in training and for cardiologists in practice, to provide a high-quality and authoritative review of the following topics:
- Basics of transthoracic echocardiography (including machine settings and possible pitfalls)
- Assessment of ventricular function in different disease settings
- Integrated Doppler approach to assessing hemodynamics
- The “state of the art” of transthoracic echocardiography:
– to assess myocardial function
– to assess patients with heart failure
– to quantify severity of valvular heart disease
– to assess right heart function - The course will also cover the most important aspects of tissue Doppler imaging, three-dimensional echocardiography, contrast echocardiography, and speckle tracking echocardiography
The official language of the course is English.
Date: 15-17. April 2010.
Locality: National Art Museum, Auditorium Hall (in Bucharest, Romania)
Please find more information, detalied program in document attached.
