ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY COURSE FREE CLASSES
Click on a video class to see a summary of the topic and then watch these complete classes by clicking on course lessons above. However, they are only one of the dozens presented in each specific course. It is not a course for those who do not know how to perform the exam yet, you need to have basic knowledge of echocardiography.
General Concepts
Bernoulli: 'the misunderstood' (19min)
Much is said about Bernoulli’s equation but often in an erroneous way. Is it a blood flow velocity that produces a gradient or the gradient that produces a certain velocity? Is the jet laminar or turbulent? Here’s how reason, logic and common sense can be completely wrong.
LV and RV systolic function
Evaluation of LV Systolic Function with Doppler (21min)
Let us see how Doppler evaluates LV systolic function.
Cavities Overloads
Left Ventricular Dilation - Volumetric Overload and Dysfunction Dilation (9min)
Usually an easy to perform. The problem is to call it Eccentric Hypertrophy.
Pulmonary Hypertension
Trying to Estimate the RA pressure with the IVC (7min)
The estimation of a right atrial pressure is of paramount importance to the evaluation of peak systolic pulmonary pressure. Can we really estimate it?
LV Diastolic Function
Evaluation by the movement of the mitral ring to the 2D echo (11min)
In just eleven minutes learn to evaluate the LV Relaxation by the movement of the Mitral Ring to the Two-dimensional Echo. Much more sensitive and specific than Mitral Doppler.
Mitral Stenosis
First signs of rheumatic injury in a mitral valve. How to identify. (2min)
The first signs of rheumatic injury in a mitral valve are often difficult to identify. The answer lies mainly in the one-dimensional echo of the valve.
Mitral Regurgitation
Different Causes
Mitral insufficiency due to papillary muscle dysfunction. (9 min)
We will study papillary muscle dysfunction, as well as the so-called mitral with a ‘seagull’ aspect , which also happens due to the poor location of the papillary muscles secondary to LV hypertrophy or even to the cavity dilation.
Aortic Stenosis
Assessment of Severity of Aortic Stenosis part II - cont. Doppler (10min)
Several means of assessing the hemodynamic severity of aortic stenosis. Color flow and continuous Doppler.
Aortic Regurgitation
Evaluate the Severity of Aortic Regurgitation II (8min)
Evaluation by color Doppler and color Doppler M-mode
Endocarditis
How to diagnose endocarditis I- two-dimensional echo (9min)
Diagnosing endocarditis with two-dimensional transthoracic echo is easy when the vegetation is large and there is a suggestive clinical picture. The problem is to distinguish small degenerative valve calcifications or thickening of vegetation. If there is no compatible clinical picture, the echocardiographer does not consider these findings to be vegetations. If there is a compatible clinical picture, these same findings are considered vegetations!!!!! Next class we will see how to make the differential diagnosis.
Prosthetic Valves
Normal prosthesis: Biological (11min).
Echocardiographic, two-dimensional , Doppler and transesophageal appearance of a normal biological prosthesis.
Cardiac Tumors and Thrombus
Cardiac Thrombus (9min)
Diagnostic evaluation of cardiac thrombus.
Pericardium
Partial agenesis of the left pericardium (6min)
Partial agenesis of the left pericardium is a condition that is often confused with ASD but can be easily diagnosed on one-dimensional echo.
Cardiomyopathies
Cardiomyopathy: RV Arrhythmogenic Dysplasia (3min)
In this lesson we will see how to diagnose RV arrhythmogenic dysplasia. Situation that has been found a lot lately due to the greater awareness of echocardiographers for this diagnosis.
Coronary Disease
Right Ventricle Infarction (3min)
RV infarction is quite common, but not frequently diagnosed.
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There are also courses on echocardiography for the clinical cardiologist or those interested in POCUS. Also myocardial deformation – strain and strain rate.
