Description
Mayo Clinic Echo Fiesta 2026
In-Depth Review of Echocardiography for Sonographers & Physicians
📌 Overview
The Mayo Clinic Echo Fiesta 2026 is a comprehensive, practical course designed to enhance expertise in echocardiography and cardiovascular imaging.
This program delivers an in-depth review of 2D echocardiography, Doppler, strain imaging, and 3D techniques, with a strong emphasis on real-world clinical application across a wide range of cardiac conditions.
📦 Course Specifications
- 🎥 Format: Video lectures
- 📅 Course Date: April 16–19, 2026
- 🧠 Level: Intermediate to Advanced
- 📚 Focus: Practical echocardiography & multimodality imaging
🎯 Target Audience
This course is ideal for:
- Cardiologists
- Cardiovascular fellows and trainees
- Cardiac sonographers
- Clinicians involved in cardiac imaging
🧠 What You Will Learn
🫀 Core Echocardiography Skills
- 2D echocardiography fundamentals
- Doppler and color flow imaging
- Quantitative assessment of cardiac function
🔬 Advanced Imaging Techniques
- 3D echocardiography for ventricular assessment
- Strain imaging (LV and LA strain)
- Stress echocardiography applications
❤️ Valvular & Structural Heart Disease
- Assessment of stenosis and regurgitation
- Valve prosthesis evaluation
- Interventional echocardiography guidance
🧠 Cardiomyopathies & Complex Cases
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Cardiac amyloidosis
- Case-based interpretation strategies
⚙️ Interventional & Emerging Technologies
- Echo guidance in structural interventions
- Intracardiac echocardiography basics
- Role of artificial intelligence in echocardiography
📚 Course Topics Include
- Left ventricular quantification and strain imaging
- Diastolic function and left atrial strain
- Right heart assessment and hemodynamics
- Lung ultrasound and POCUS
- Stress echocardiography cases
- Pericardial disease and tamponade
- Valvular heart disease (aortic, mitral, tricuspid)
- Interventional echocardiography techniques
- AI applications in cardiac imaging
- Cardiovascular disease in special populations
📌 Topics:
Welcome, Introduction, Course Overview, Get to Know the Audience
EVALUATION OF THE LEFT SIDE
Advances in LV Quantification – Moving Past 2-D
Left Ventricular Strain Imaging
Practical Tips and Tricks for Optimizing 3-D Assessment of LV
Echocardiographic Evaluation of Diastolic Function: New Guidelines – Where They Got It Right and Where They Got It Wrong
Left Atrial Strain Imaging
LEFT VENTRICULAR CARDIOMYOPATHIES AND APPLICATIONS IN STRAIN IMAGING
Amyloid Heart Disease – When Should I Worry?
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Multi-modality Imaging Approach to Diagnosis and Prognosis
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Advances in Medical and Interventional Management
Applying Strain Imaging to Interesting Myocardial Imaging Cases
STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY AND PERICARDIAL DISEASE
Stress Echo Cases
Stress Echo for Valvular Heart Disease
Pericardial Disease – Confirming Constriction and Cardiac Tamponade
Breakout Sessions: Small Groups Reviewing Cases and Techniques
Attendees may rotate in and out as they wish.
Diastology: Cases & Practice Review (Main Ballroom)
Hands-on: 3-D Dataset Cropping (Hondo Ballroom)
Breakout Sessions: Small Groups Reviewing Cases and Techniques
Attendees may rotate in and out as they wish.
Hands-on Strain Imaging – Live Scanning (Main Ballroom)
Hands-on: 3-D Dataset Cropping (Hondo Ballroom)
Friday, April 17, 2026
EVALUATION OF THE RIGHT SIDE
Right on Track: Mastering Right Heart Assessment
Tips and Tricks to Acquire 3-D RV Volumes and EF Along With Strain
From Pixels to Pressure: Echocardiographic Estimation of Right-Sided Hemodynamics
RV Riddles: Case-Based Challenges from the Right Side
Lung Ultrasound
The Anatomy of the Tricuspid Valve
Echo Wars: What is the Best Imaging Modality for Severe TR Work-Up?
Transcatheter Tricuspid Therapies and Pre-Procedural Planning
Tricuspid Troubles: Complex Cases in TR Management With a Multidisciplinary Team Discussion
Saturday, April 18, 2026
LEFT SIDED VALVULAR HEART DISEASE
Aortic Stenosis: Working Through Discrepant Data
Aortic Valve Regurgitation: Challenging Cases
Calcific Mitral Stenosis
Mitral Regurgitation: Pearls and Pitfalls of Assessment and Quantitation
INTERVENTIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY
Cross-Sectional Imaging for Periprocedural Interventional Guidance: An Overview for the Echocardiographer
Fluoroscopic and Echocardiographic Correlates for Interventional Procedural Guidance
3-D Echo for Valvular Imaging: Tips and Tricks
Intracardiac Echocardiography: A Primer for the Echocardiographer
INTERVENTIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY CONTINUED
MitraClip: Simple and Complex Cases – Interventional Commentary
Case Based Aortic and Mitral Valve Prosthesis Evaluation
Perivalvular Leak Closure: Decision and Intraprocedural Guidance
Breakout Sessions: Small Groups Reviewing Cases and Techniques
Attendees may rotate in and out as they wish.
AI Fireside Chat (Main Ballroom)
Hands-on TEE Simulator (Hondo Ballroom)
Breakout Sessions: Small Groups Reviewing Cases and Techniques
Attendees may rotate in and out as they wish.
Hands-on: Lung Ultrasound & POCUS (Hondo Ballroom)
AI Fireside Chat
Sunday, April 19, 2026
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE IN SPECIALIZED POPULATIONS
Cardiovascular Disease in Pregnancy
Cardiovascular Disease in Athletes
New Oncology Therapies – Implications for the Imager
Case-Based Approach to Congenital Disease
Interesting Cases from Faculty – You Pick the Winner!
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