1.0 CME | 1.0 ABIM MOC

Up to 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ and
1.0 ABIM MOC Medical Knowledge point for eligible participants.

Dr. Ronald Wharton

Short videos. Remarkable cases. Decades of experience.

Dr. Ronald Wharton takes you straight into real echocardiographic cases, sharing the diagnostic clues, unexpected findings, and clinical insights that come from decades of experience. Each focused video is paired with supplemental learning that takes you deeper into the cases.

Course curriculum

    1. Welcome & How To Earn Credit

    2. Accreditation & Disclosures

    1. Aortic Stenosis - Two Cases. Two Diagnostic Surprises.

    1. Aortic Stenosis: When the Findings Don't Tell the Whole Story

    1. Introduction

    2. Why Can Severe Aortic Stenosis Have a Low Gradient?

    3. Understanding the Dimensionless Index

    4. True Severe Versus Pseudo-Severe Aortic Stenosis

    5. How Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography Helps

    6. The Unexpected Finding: Look at the Rest of the Heart

    7. Why Cardiac Amyloidosis Can Be Missed in Aortic Stenosis

    8. What Additional Echocardiographic Findings Should Raise Suspicion?

    9. Understanding Relative Apical Sparing

    10. What Happens When Amyloidosis Is Suspected?

    11. Why the Diagnosis Matters for Treatment

    1. The Clinical Problem: Symptoms Have Returned

    2. Why the Doppler Velocity Index Can Be Misleading

    3. Why Eccentric Jets Are Easy to Miss

    4. What Did the Additional Imaging Reveal?

    5. Why Transgastric TEE Views Matter

    6. A Very Different Hemodynamic Result

    7. The Importance of Multiple Doppler Windows

    8. The Clue That Was Present on the Original Study

    9. Understanding Acceleration Time

    10. Why the Contour Can Help When the Velocity Is Underestimated

    11. Does an Extremely High Velocity Tell Us Why the Prosthesis Is Obstructed?

    12. What Should This Case Change About Our Scanning Practice?

    1. Closing Perspective — Two Cases, One Important Principle

    2. References

About this course

  • $25.00
  • 31 lessons
  • 10 minutes

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