14th International Postgraduate Course on Advances in Cardiac Ultrasound

This well-known postgraduate course will concen­trate on the recent advances in cardiac ultrasound and their relevance for clinical problem solving in every day practice. State-of-the-art lectures will provide cardiologists and those interested in cardiac ultrasound a review of all current uses and new developments and how to implement them in daily practice. Particular emphasis will be on quantitative Doppler hemodynamics and some sessions will be entirely devoted to presentations of clinical studies/cases with interactive discussions between participants and faculty.

Exhibits and demonstrations of the latest echocardiography and Doppler instrumentation will be organised.

Program director: 

• J.R.T.C. Roelandt (Rotterdam, NL)

Program co-directors:

• J.J. Bax (Leiden, NL), 
• J. Kisslo (Durham, US), 
• I. Kronzon (New York, US),
•  P. Nihoyannopoulos (London, UK).

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS

• Advances in echo/Dopper

• Systolic heart failure: evaluation, prognostication and management

• Is diastolic heart failure worth assessing?

• The increasing importance of LA-size assessment

• Asynchrony and resynchronization: how to assess?

• Strain: what is it, which techniques and what to do with it?

• Stress-echo in non-ischemic heart disease

• Vascular disease and risk assessment

• Illustrative case presentations

For sponsorship information, please contact:

Drs. R. Monster
Tel. +31-(0)6-53120237
E-mail: r.monster@rechtspraak.nl