EUROECHO 9

7 -10 December 2005, Florence (IT)

EUROECHO 9 Congress Using the EUROECHO 9 educational course materials, the Web Committee has selected teaching course slides destined to provide high-level education in Echocardiography.

These Educational Slides should represent a valuable source of information and knowledge for all specialists interested in this area of cardiology.

Slide presentations

Title	Authors	Session
Anatomical aspects of simple shunt lesions - Atrial Septal Defect	Yen Ho S.	The segmental approach to logical diagnosis. Simple shunt lesions - diagnosis and imaging of interventions.
Anatomy of unrepaired Tetralogy of Fallot	Yen Ho S.	Cyanotic heart disease and its treatment
Classification and echocardiographic evaluation	Rakowski H.	Cardiomyopathies
Diastolic Heart Failure	Poulsen S.H.	Echocardiography in heart failure
Epicardial echo - anatomy and standard examination	Fraser A.G.	Anatomical correlations and methods for epicardial and transoesophageal imaging
How to set up and optimise the controls	Leech G.J.	The normal examination
How to set up quality control	Fox K.F.	The normal examination
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy - correlations between phenotype and genotype	Pellerin D.	Where are we now? Basic principles and applications
Pericardial effusion and tamponade	Pepi M.	Pericardial disease, cardiac tumours and source of embolism
Principles and applications of tissue Doppler	Derumeaux G.	Ventricular function
Relation between echocardiography and biomarkers	Jourdain P.	Echocardiography in heart failure
Restrictive cardiomyopathy or pericardial constriction?	Gillam L.D.	Cardiomyopathies
Setting-up a contrast echo laboratory - what do you need?	Mulvagh S.	Where are we now? Basic principles and applications
Source of embolism	Pinto F.J.	Pericardial disease, cardiac tumours and source of embolism
Transoesophageal echo - advanced techniques	Pepi M.	Anatomical correlations and methods for epicardial and transoesophageal imaging
Ventricular Septal Defect: Anatomy	Thiene G.	The segmental approach to logical diagnosis. Simple shunt lesions - diagnosis and imaging of interventions
Ventricular Septal Defects: the role of the echocardiographer during device closure	Carminati M.	The segmental approach to logical diagnosis. Simple shunt lesions - diagnosis and imaging of interventions

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