The 20th Annual ASCeXAM / ReASCE Review Course

1. Welcome – G. Aurigemma, R. Lang

2. Normal TTE Examination, Doppler Echocardiography and Normal Antegrade Flow Patterns

3. Normal TEE Examination- Applications, Pitfalls, Probe Insertion and Manipulation, Risks and Complications

4. Echo-Doppler Assessment of Right and Left Ventricular Hemodynamics

5. Endocarditis and Its Complications- The Role of Echocardiography

6. Chamber Quantitation- LV, LA, RV (2D&3D)

7. Global and Regional Systolic Function- Basics of Remodeling, Hypertrophy and LV Mass

8. Practice Board Exam Questions on Endocarditis, Hemodynamics and Left Ventricular Remodeling

1. Sunday Overview

2. Spectral Doppler and M-Mode Echo Cases

3. Tissue Doppler and Strain Imaging

4. Cardiac Masses

5. Quantification of Mitral Regurgitation- New Guidelines

6. Mitral Stenosis

7. Degenerative and Functional Mitral Valve Disease

8. Practice Board Exam Questions on Mitral Valve Disease and Cardiac Masses

9. Echocardiographic Evaluation of Mitral Valve Prostheses

10. How to Assess Aortic Stenosis- New Guidelines (Bicuspid Valve, Dilated Aortic Root)

11. Different Variants of Aortic Stenosis

12. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

13. Echocardiography in Systemic Disease

14. Practice Board Exam on Aortic Valve Disease, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, and Systemic Disease

1. Overview of ASCeXAM and ReASCE

2. Concepts of Imaging and Knobology

3. Artifacts – Theory and Illustrative Examples

4. Evaluation of the Right Ventricle

5. Tricuspid and Pulmonary Valve Disease – New Guidelines

6. Practice Board Exam on Physics, Echocardiographic Artifacts, Right Ventricular Function, and Tricuspid

7. Echocardiographic Evaluation of Aortic Valve Prostheses

8. Quantitation of Aortic Regurgitation

9. Stress Echocardiography – Theoretical and Practical Considerations

10. Complications of Myocardial Infarction

11. Primer of Interventional Echo

12. Practice Board Exam on Stress Echocardiography, 3D, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, and Systemic Disease_2

1. Contrast Echocardiography

2. Commonly Encountered Congenital Heart Disease in Adults

3. Congenital Heart Disease – An Approach for Simple and Complex Anomalies

4. Congenital Heart Disease Cases

5. Echocardiographic Evaluation of Diastolic Function

6. Echocardiographic Evaluation of Pericardial Disease Constriction vs. Restriction

7. Practice Board Exam on Diastolic Dysfunction, Pericardial Disease, and Congenital Heart Disease

8. Diseases of the Aorta

9. Echocardiography in Heart Failure and LVADs