3D Echocardiography Tutorials - Focus on Valvular Heart Disease

After completing this eLearning course, participants will be able to: 

• Learn how to use 3D echocardiography to visualize the detailed anatomy of the cardiac valves
• Learn the technical principles and controls used for the different types of acquisitions using 3D echocardiography.
• Recognize common artifacts and technical limitations in 3D echocardiography and learn strategies to overcome them.
• Use 3D echocardiography to recognize the different mechanisms of valve dysfunction
• Apply 3D echocardiographic techniques and interpret 3D quantitative parameters (e.g., vena contracta, regurgitant orifice area) to determine lesion severity
• Understand the role of 3D echocardiography in preoperative planning and intraoperative guidance for valve repair or replacement.
• Explore how 3D echocardiography complements other imaging modalities (2D echo, CT, MRI) for comprehensive VHD evaluation.

Prerequisites:

• Knowledge of conventional 2D and Doppler echocardiography imaging for assessing valvular heart disease
• Interest to gain knowledge or improve the skills in 3D echocardiography for heart valve anatomy and function assessment using the latest 3D technology

This course can be purchased by both members and non-members.

SAVINGS! FEACVI save 45%, EACVI Members under 40 save 35% and EACVI Members save 25%, on the course fee.

Once you have purchased the course, you will have 12 months to complete it.

Programme:

1. Why do we need 3D echocardiography?
2. Knobology and acquisition modalities
3. How to optimize 3D image quality? 
4. How to recognize and avoid artifacts? 
5. Implementation of 3D echo in the routine of the echo lab
6. Imaging the Mitral Valve by Transthoracic 3D Echo
7. Mitral valve stenosis - Case #1
8. Mitral valve stenosis - Case #2
9. Primary MR - Case #1
10. Primary MR - Case #2
11. Secondary MR and MV quantification - Case #1
12. Secondary MR and MV quantification - Case #2
13. Patient selection for MR interventions (imaging protocol focused on 3D analysis)
14. Imaging the Tricuspid Valve by Transthoracic 3D Echo
15. Primary TR and TS (anatomy and severity)
16. Secondary TR and annulus quantification
17. TV annulus quantification
18. Patient selection for TV interventions
19. Imaging the Aortic Valve by Transthoracic 3D Echo
20. AV regurgitation and annulus quantification
21. Patient selection for TAVI
22. PV regurgitation
23. PV stenosis
24. Congenital valve diseases
25. Imaging the Right Ventricle by Transthoracic 3D Echo
26. Imaging the Left Ventricle by Transthoracic 3D Echo
27. Imaging the Left Atrium by Transthoracic 3D Echo
28. Imaging the Right Atrium by Transthoracic 3D Echo

Additional topic: 3.4 Echocardiography - Valvular Heart Disease