Ultrasound course – Echocardiographic assessment of ischemic and non-ischemic myocardial pathology
02/24/24 the Medigran company, together with the Western Ukrainian Specialized Children's Medical Center, held a professional school “Echocardiographic assessment of ischemic and non-ischemic myocardial pathology” in the city of Lviv
The course covered:
- Definition of ischemic cardiomyopathy. Ischemic mitral insufficiency. Echocardiographic assessment of ICMP.
- Dilated cardiomyopathy. Diagnosis and differentiation. Myocarditis: the possibility of visual diagnosis.
- Nondilated cardiomyopathy – a “new” pathology? Hypertrabecularity of the myocardium.
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Features of diagnostics of different phenotypes. Assessing the risk of sudden death. Indications for surgical intervention.
- Phenocopy of HCM. Cardiac amyloidosis: clues to echocardiographic diagnosis. What you need to know about Fabry disease
- Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy.
- Restrictive cardiomyopathies. Loeffler's endocarditis.
- Rare ILC. Sarcoidosis of the heart. Takotsubo cardiomyopathy.
- MRI diagnostics in differentiating ischemic and non-ischemic heart pathologies.
Practical classes were held on innovative ultrasound machines ALPINION (South Korea):
- updated expert-class device X-CUBE 90 with Elite
- new portable expert class devices X-CUBE i9 and X-CUBE i8 – for the first time in Ukraine
We would like to sincerely express our gratitude to the speakers Neli Dmitrievna Orishchin and Yuri Aleksandrovich Palamarchuk, as well as to all the course participants!
Thank you for your trust!
