Oct 3 & 4, TAVR Course

TAVR Course Website

Can't make Oct 3 & 4?

Next course will be January 10 & 11, 2013

The course will combine hands-on workstation interpretation of cases with didactic materials and videotaped/narrated implantation procedures. Topics covered in the hands-on part of the course include:

• Introduction to multidetector CT & ECHO
• Centerline
• MIP vs. MinIP
• Transverse/sagittal – double oblique short axis
• Imaging protocols
• Basics of image analysis: aortoiliac system
• Basics of aortic valve analysis
  • Aortic stenosis evaluation
  • Aortic calcification – eccentricity index
  • Aortic insufficiency evaluation
• Assessment of the aortic annulus
• Angle prediction
• Videotaped cases with commentary
• Predicting success and failure
  • TAVR complications
• The Perfect Report: how to communicate findings to the interventionalist and surgeon
• Long-term follow up of transcatheter aortic valves
• Future development of catheter-based aortic valve implantation

In total, the trainee will interpret 25 cases in this class. Students will leave with a course book as well as 10 take-home cases that they can interpret on their own and evaluate their proficiency via an online scoring system.