15th Training Course for Minimally Invasive Heart Valve Surgery
September 15 - 18, 2024
Valve Surgery under RE-CONSTRUCTION
Intraoperative TEE
Basics
- Standard views and echo-anatomy of aortic and mitral valve
- Case presentations – Common mitral valve pathologies
- Pre-bypass evaluation of common mitral valve pathologies (2D, 3D and CF Doppler)
Moderate Mitral Valve Insufficiency
- Case presentations – Moderate mitral valve insufficiency in pre-bypass evaluation
- How can intra-operative echo help in decision making?
Evaluation after Mitral or Aortic Valve Replacement
- Case presentations – How to analyze dysfunction of the mitral valve prosthesis
- Quantify and localize paravalvular leakage, interpret gradients across prosthesis
- Case presentations – Abnormal echo findings after aortic valve replacement
- Evaluate gradients across prosthesis and DF Doppler jets in the LVOT
Evaluation after Mitral Valve Reconstruction
- Case presentation – Residual Insufficiency after mitral valve reconstruction
- Case presentation – SAM after mitral valve reconstruction
- How can intra-operative echo help?
Aim of the course
Based on the interactive discussion of echo findings from real life cases, attendants should obtain the basic knowledge to interpret intra-operative transesophageal echo findings relevant for valve surgery and learn about the most important limitations and pitfalls of intra-operative echocardiography.