Echocardiology Course
October 26th, 2024
(updated October 26th, 2024)
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>>> Table of Contents (work in progress)
- Introduction to methodology
- Anatomy heart & chambers
- Anatomy mitral apparatus
- Anatomy aortic apparatus, coronary arteries & conduction system
- Physics of ultrasound
- The echocardiographic machine
- The 2D examination
- 2D measurements
- M-mode measurements
- Doppler echocardiography
- The Standard examination
- Basic hemodynamics
- LV Systolic function
– LV stroke volume - LV diastolic function
- Ischemic heart disease
- RV anatomy and hemodynamics
- RV function
- LV hypertrophy – Physiopathology
- LV hypertrophy – Echocardiography in hypertensive heart disease
- LH hypertrophy – Athlete’s heart & differential diagnosis of LV hypertrophy
- Mitral valve stenosis
- Mitral valve regurgitation
- Aortic valve stenosis
- Aortic valve regurgitation
- Tricuspid valve diseases
- Pulmonary valve diseases
- New Guidelines for Valvulopathies
- Valvular prosthesis
- Transcatheter interventions
- Endocarditis
- Dilated cardiomyopathy
- Echocardiography in heart failure
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Amyloidosis & Anderson-Fabry
- ARVD – arrhythmogenic RV dysplasia
- Heart masses
- Pericardial physiology and pathology
- Adult congenital heart diseases
- Echocardiography in Emergencies
- Stress echocardiography
- Transesophageal echocardiography
- Left atrial Anatomy and function