Overview
Cleveland Clinic’s “12th Diastology and New Echo Technologies Summit: Featuring Heart Valve and Contrast
Echo Mini-Symposia” provides a unique opportunity for attendees to interact with key opinion leaders and
receive updates in heart valve disease, diastology, new and emerging echo technologies, and contrast
echocardiography.
The Summit will be held February 4-7, 2009, at the Hyatt Regency Bonaventure
Conference Center and Spa in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Approximately 200-300 attendees are expected.
The Summit is divided into four parts.
The first part is Heart Valve Disease, which will present a state-of-the-art mini-symposium on new
advances in valvular heart disease including epidemiology, clinical diagnostic approaches to mitral,
tricuspid, and aortic regurgitation and aortic stenosis as well as new approaches to aortic valve repair
including robotic and percutaneous techniques.
The second part is Diastology, which will present a state-of-the-art summit on new advances in diastolic
heart failure including epidemiology, clinical diagnostic approaches, specific diseases, and effects of
therapy for diastolic heart failure as well as recent and future clinical trials.
The third part is New Echo Technologies, which will highlight new and emerging applications in real time 3-D
and 4-D echo, live 3-D TEE, 2-D strain, torsion, stress echo, cardiac resynchronization, and interventional echo.
The fourth part is Contrast Echocardiography, which will present a state-of-the-art mini-symposium on the
basic principles of contrast echo, rest and stress LVO and EBD, myocardial perfusion, and new research
applications. There will also be discussion of the revised black box warning.
The Summit will feature several Interactive workshops for each of these topics. The Diastology workshop
will illustrate a “Read-with-the-Experts” session through case presentations as well as a new sonographer
basics tutorial. The New Echo Technologies workshop will include 3-D echo, strain and CRT cases and a
sonographer 101 tutorial. The Contrast Echocardiography workshop will have a “Read-with-the-Experts”
session on LVO and stress perfusion.
Target Audience
This activity is designed for cardiologists, sonographers, nurses, cardiology fellows, and other healthcare
professionals interested in diastology, new echocardiographic technologies, contrast echocardiography, and
heart valve disease.
Objectives
After completing this activity, the participant will be able to do the following for each session:
| Heart Valve |
New Echocardiography Technologies |
- Describe state-of-the-art multimodality
imaging in valvular heart disease
- Describe the natural history of mitral regurgitation
and when to treat medically or surgically
- Discuss Doppler quantitative approaches to
mitral regurgitation and aortic regurgitation
- Describe mechanisms and treatment of
ischemic
mitral regurgitation and
aortic regurgitation
- Discuss surgical mitral and tricuspid
valve repair
- Discuss new mechanisms and therapies
for
aortic stenosis
- Discuss the epidemiology of aortic
regurgitation and
when to intervene
- Describe percutaneous approaches to mitral
and
aortic diseases
|
- Describe the role of 3-D and 4-D echo in
clinical practice
- Discuss advances in transesophageal echo
imaging including real-time imaging
- Discuss 2-D strain to assess cardiac function
- Describe the use of LV torsion in
clinical practice
- Discuss the role of strain in stress echo
- Discuss the value of echo measurements of CRT
- Describe how to perform 3-D, CRT, strain and
strain rate imaging and torsion by a sonographer
- Discuss the role of echo in percutaneous valve
surgery and LAA closure
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| Diastology |
Contrast Echocardiography |
- Describe epidemiology of diastolic function
- Describe the biology, physiology of
diastolic function
- Discuss Doppler approaches of diastolic
function, including mitral inflow, pulmonary
vein
flow, tissue Doppler imaging, color
M-mode
Doppler, strain rate imaging, torsion and
2-D strain
- Describe how to estimate LV filling pressures
- Discuss the technique for performing diastolic
function by sonographers
- Discuss impaired diastolic function in various
diseases including pericardial diseases, cardiomyopathies, coronary artery disease, HOCM, and hypertension
- Discuss pharmaceutical therapies for
diastolic function
- Describe recent and future clinical trials
|
- Describe the basics of contrast echocardiography,
including the contrast and ultrasound interaction
- Discuss the various contrast imaging modalities,
including low or high mechanical index
- Discuss the role of contrast in rest and with stress
echo and salvaging the difficult echo
- Discuss how to do an LVO and myocardial perfusion exam
- Discuss the prognostic value of stress
perfusion echo
- Describe techniques for reading perfusion at rest
and stress in a busy echo lab
- Discuss how to interpret EBD, LVO, and myocardial perfusion
- Discuss new research developments including
artherosclerosis imaging and targeted microbubbles
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The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education acknowledges
education grants for partial support of this activity from: |
Astellas Pharma US, Inc.
Boston Scientific Corporation
Ethicon, Inc.
Forest Research Institute
GE Healthcare – Cardiovascular Ultrasound
Lantheus Medical Imaging
Phillips Medical Systems
ProSolv Cardiovascular, A FUJIFILM Company
Siemens Medical Solutions
St. Jude Medical, Inc.
Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc.
Wyeth
Edwards Lifesciences
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