Cardiovascular Symposium
HeartBook2015 (digital)
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Stress Echocardiography<br />
Thursday afternoon, September 17, 2015<br />
Saint John Regional Hospital – Amphitheatre Level 5D<br />
Moderator: David Bewick, MD<br />
Learning Objectives:<br />
• Discuss the utility of stress echocardiography in the evaluation<br />
and management of patients with valvular heart disease<br />
• Discuss the advantages and limitations of a pharmacological echo<br />
versus exercise stress echocardiography<br />
• Evaluate the utility of stress echocardiography in non-ischemic heart disease with a LBBB<br />
• Practical application of stress echwocardiography utilizing a case presentation format<br />
Target Audience:<br />
Cardiologists<br />
Internists<br />
Sonographers<br />
Cardiology<br />
Technologists<br />
1200 – 1255 Registration – Level 1, Amphitheatre<br />
1255 – 1300<br />
Introduction<br />
David Bewick, MD<br />
1300 – 1320<br />
Anthony Sanfilippo, MD<br />
1320 – 1400<br />
Howard Leong-Poi, MD<br />
1400 – 1420<br />
Sarah Ramer, MD<br />
1420 – 1440<br />
David Bewick, MD<br />
Assessment of Functional Severity of Valvular Regurgitation – Does<br />
Stress Echo Add Any Incremental Value?<br />
This presentation will review the hemodynamic and structural adaptations to volume loading,<br />
how Stress Echo may provide insights as to the status of the asymptomatic patient and review<br />
current guidelines.<br />
Diagnosis of Low Flow, Low Gradient Aortic Stenosis<br />
With and Without LV Systolic Dysfunction<br />
• Practical utility of dobutamine stress echo<br />
• Pearls and pitfalls<br />
• How to diagnose “surgical” low flow low gradient aortic stenosis with preserved EF<br />
The diagnosis of severe valvular aortic stenosis (AS) is challenging when mean transaortic<br />
gradients are
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