Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this symposium, participants should be better able to:

• Utilize a multidisciplinary structural heart team approach to diagnose and treat structural heart disease.
• Recognize the echocardiographic presentation and application of advanced imaging in patients with valvular heart disease and atrial fibrillation, including hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
• Demonstrate the utility of multimodality imaging in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and workup for left atrial appendage and valvular heart disease.
• Assess and apply a comprehensive approach when managing the aortic, mitral and tricuspid valves and the interatrial septum, utilizing basic and advanced imaging techniques to identify and guide the treatment of valvular heart disease.
• Utilize current evidence-based clinical data in TAVR, TMVR, TEER, LAA occluder devices, paravalvular leak and Etoh septal ablation to optimize treatment.
• Demonstrate the management and utility of transesophageal and 3-D imaging in the cardiac catheterization lab to guide structural heart procedures.
• Further define the tricuspid valve anatomy and function and describe the implications for treatment of tricuspid regurgitation using transcatheter therapy.
• Avoid common pitfalls in imaging patients in cardio-oncology, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and structural heart disease.
• Define protocols that can assess valvular heart disease after intervention.
• Enhance understanding of the fundamentals and workup of valve disease from the sonographer's perspective, facilitating better communication and collaboration between sonographers and reading cardiologists within the field of echocardiography. Define protocols that can assess valvular heart disease after intervention.

Symposium Directors

Elliott J. Elias, M.D., MPH, FACC, FASE
Cardiologist
Medical Director of Cardiac and Structural Imaging
Baptist Health Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute
Miami, Florida

Damian F. Chaupin, M.D.
Cardiologist
Baptist Health Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute
Miami, Florida

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Who Should Attend

Cardiologists, cardiology fellows, anesthesiologists, emergency medicine physicians, critical care physicians, echocardiography and noninvasive vascular testing specialists, sonographers, sonography students, cardiac and cardiothoracic nurses, nurse practitioners, and others with a keen interest in echocardiography and cardiac disease.