This course features 49 presentations compiled from Echo Hawaii and State-of-the-Art Echocardiography. This course also includes board style questions for a majority of the presentations.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this program, participants will be better able to:

• Integrate echocardiographic information in clinical decision making.
• Assess ventricular and valvular function using Doppler hemodynamics.
• Describe Doppler assessment of diastolic function/dysfunction.
• Explain new advances in the echocardiographic assessment of left and right ventricular function, including strain and 3D.
• Integrate echocardiographic assessment of cardiomyopathies and systemic diseases in patient management.
• Define clinical uses of TEE and 3D echocardiography.
• Recognize how echocardiography is used to help manage patients with ischemic heart disease.
• Recognize the role of echo contrast and be able to incorporate its use in the echo laboratory.
• Integrate echo information in the management of complex valvular heart disease.

STATE-OF-THE-ART ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY LECTURES

• AI and Echocardiography
  S. Lester
• Quantitation of Ventricular Function
  R. Lang
• Contrast Echocardiography: Impact on Diagnosis and Outcome
  J. Oh
• Stress Echocardiography is Still Alive
  W. Zoghbi
• Cases to Illustrate When Aortic Stenosis Gradient and Area Do Not Match
  M. Saric
• What Should A Successful TAVR Look Like
  R. Jain
• Degenerated Bio Prosthesis, Valve-in-Valve
  N. Faza
• Mitral Regurgitation, Etiology and Quantification
  W. Zoghbi
• Mitra Clip Measurements
  N. Faza
• Pathologies of Mitral Valve
  S. Mankad
• Pathologies of Tricuspid Valve
  S. Mankad
• Tricuspid Valve Repair: The New Frontier
  N. Faza
• LAA Occluder Device, Measurement
  M. Saric
• Measuring Normal Function of Prosthetic Valves
  W. Zoghbi
• Aortic Regurgitation Illustrative Cases
  M. Malahfji
• Native and Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis
  M. Saric
• Learn Clinical Diastology With Cases
  J. Oh
• Amyloid and Constriction
  J. Oh
• Stress Cardiomyopathy
  M. Malahfji
• Systemic Illness and The Heart
  S. Lester
• Pulmonary Hypertension: Optimal Evaluation
  M. Mukherjee
• RV Strain: Cases to Illustrate How
  S. Lester
• Clinical Examples of Utility Of GLS
  S. Mankad
• Utility of LA Strain: Case Examples
  M. Mukherjee
• Cardio Oncology: Case Examples
• Normal and Abnormal LVAD Cases
  M. Christensen
• Pulmonary Embolism and RV Strain
  M. Mukherjee

ECHO HAWAII LECTURES

• Physiology of Diastole: What are We Trying to Measure?
  G. Scalia
• Physiology of Systole: What are We Really Trying to Measure?
  J. Lindner
• Intro to Strain Imaging: How does GLS add to EF?
  S. De
• A Primer on Adult Congenital Echoes
  A. De Freitas
• Assessing the RV – Role of Strain and 3D
  M. Saric
• Echo in Beside Care: COVID and Beyond
  S. McCartney
• Strain in the Assessment of Cardiomyopathies
  J. Oh
• The Future of Echo: AI and Machine Learning
  J. Thomas
• Chest Pain in the ER: Which Test?
  J. Lindner
• Complications of MI: Echo has the Answer
  S. McCartney
• The Future of Echo: Advanced Applications of Contrast
  J. Lindner
• Strategies to Make Your Lab Excellent
  M. Jankowski
• Assessment of Atrial Function: What is the Role of Strain?
  G. Scalia
• Top 5 Situations Where I Find Strain is Helpful
  V. Rigolin
• Septal Defects You Don’t Want to Close
  A. de Freitas
• Quantification of Stenosis: Avoid These Pitfalls
  W. Armstrong
• Starting an Interventional Echo Program: Training, Technique, & Economics
  S. Little
• 3D Assessment of the Cardiac Valves
  G. Scalia
• Interventions for MR in Heart Failure
  G. Scalia
• MitraClip: Who is it for? How is it Guided?
  M. Saric
• The Future of Echo: The Brave New World
  S. Little
• Eisenmenger’s Echo in the Middle of the Night
  A. de Freitas
• A Systematic Approach to Multi-Valve Disease
  J. Thomas
• Exercise Echo and Strain to Time Intervention in Valvular Heart Disease
  V. Rigolin
• Improving source of Embolus Exams: The Science of Saline Contrast
  W. Armstrong
• TEE in Emergent Situations
  S. McCartney
• Athlete’s Heart: Separating Abnormal from Supraphysiologic
  L. Gillam
• Use of Echo in Pulmonary Hypertension
  G. Scalia