Mayo Clinic Echocardiography Review Course for Boards and Recertification

Topics

• Cardiac chamber size, left ventricular systolic and diastolic function, and right ventricular systolic function
• Basic physical principles of ultrasound and instrumentation
• Transesophageal images and attributes and limitations versus transthoracic echocardiography
• Echocardiographic derived hemodynamic data
• Diagnose and quantify etiology and severity of native and prosthetic valvular heart disease
• Acute and chronic ischemic heart disease using standard and stress echocardiography
• Cardiac masses
• Causes of heart failure, cardiomyopathies and pericardial disease
• Echocardiographic features of systemic disease with associated cardiac involvement
• Diseases of the aorta
• New echocardiographic technologies to complement/supplement standard echocardiography

Who should Attend

Cardiologists, echocardiographers, and cardiology fellows.