Gehan Hussein Ahmed Abdelgalil
Cairo University, Egypt
Title: Workshop Session 02: Practical approach to echocardiographic diagnosis of pediatric cardiac problems
Biography
Biography: Gehan Hussein Ahmed Abdelgalil
Abstract
Echocardiography has become the primary imaging tool in the diagnosis and assessment of congenital and acquired heart disease in infants, children, and adolescents. Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) is an ideal tool for cardiac assessment, as it is noninvasive, portable, and efficacious in providing detailed anatomic, hemodynamic, and physiologic information about the pediatric heart. 2 D echocardiography is used to evaluate cardiac anatomy, valvular morphology, to detect the presence of vegetation from endocarditis and to examine for the presence of pericardial fluid and for chamber or vessel thrombi. Colour Doppler is of great value in confirmation of intracardiac shunt and valvular regurgitation and/ or stenosis, while Doppler is used to estimate intracardiac pressures and pressure gradients across valves and vessels, pressure gradient across a defect, and to estimate filling pressure and fluid responsiveness. M- Mode echocardiography derived measurements are useful to quantify ventricular systolic function. The aim of this workshop is to establish the indications of TTE, to demonstrate various Echocardiographic views, explain the value of each one and to discuss the value of each modality of transthoracic echocardiography in evaluation of common pediatric cardiac problems as congenital and acquired heart diseases as well as the value of use of Echocardiographic findings in decision making of common pediatric cardiac problems