Venue: European Interbalkan Medical Center, Thessaloniki, Greece
Course Directors: Prof Luigi Badano, Dr Konstantinos Papadopoulos
Aim of the course: This course addresses to all 4D echo users and aims at fully understand the best way to acquire and analyze patients using the 4D echocardiography.
Registration
-Physical attendance & 1 week participation at the echocardiography department of Interbalkan center (19-23/10/2026), restricted to 2 persons: includes education on EchoPAC workstation and live scanning on vivid Pioneer machines with 4Vc probe, coffee breaks, 2 lunches, 1 dinner and 2 certificates, one from the course with ECMECs and one from the hospital as fellowship program (1,000.00)
-Physical attendance & 1 week participation at the echocardiography department of Interbalkan center (26-30/10/2026), restricted to 2 persons: includes education on EchoPAC workstation and live scanning on vivid Pioneer machines with 4Vc probe, coffee breaks, 2 lunches, 1 dinner and 2 certificates, one from the course with ECMECs and one from the hospital as fellowship program (1,000.00) BOOKED
-On-site hands-on registration (physical attendance): includes education on EchoPAC workstation and live scanning on vivid Pioneer machines with 4Vc probe, coffee breaks, 2 lunches, 1 dinner and advanced certificate of education with ECMECs (500.00)
-Virtual hands-on registration: includes education on virtual EchoPAC workstation platforms (remotely from your PC) and advanced certificate of education with ECMECs (350.00)
-Join online registration: includes online attendance of the course with the ability to interact but not hands-on training and basic certificate of attendance with ECMECs (150.00)
* registration does not include transfer from and to airport and accommodation
* Cancellation received after September 1st, no refund
For company/group registrations or in case of invoice, please contact us at [email protected] and do not fill in the online form. The company registration service enables you to register your delegates and get an invoice.
Certificate of Attendance
The certificate will be marked with credits of Continuing Medical Education/Continuing Professional Development (ECMECs). The certificates will be send via email.
Organized by University of Milano
Welcome
4D Echocardiography is rapidly evolving giving new perspectives in the diagnosis and management of cardiac diseases. With the new 4D echo softwares and machines we can enhance our self-confidence and credibility in a wide spectrum of structural heart diseases. Starting with heart failure patients where accurately we can provide data about ventricular volumes and contractility and going further to valvulopathies where we can visualize and demonstrate in real time all the pathology. That way all diagnostic questions are more precisely answered and the management of these patients becomes easier.
Our hands-on intensive echo course aims at giving all the needed tools for everyday routine use of 4D echocardiography in our labs. All participants at the end of the course will learn how to acquire and analyze volumes and ejection fraction for left and right ventricle and be able as well to accurately demonstrate and analyze all valve abnormalities.
We are waiting for you either onsite in Thessaloniki or online, virtually to share experience and create memories.
See you in October.
PROGRAM
1st Day: Chambers evaluation
08:30-09:00 Welcome: Connection of participants to EchoPAC
09:00-09:30 Basics of 4D echocardiography. How to apply the method in routine practice (lecture) K. Papadopoulos
09:30-10:30 Workstation session I: Learn how to optimize my 4D images in EchoPAC K. Benekos
10:30-11:00 How to assess left ventricle and left atrium with 4D (lecture) L. Badano
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-13:00 Workstation session II: LV/LA assessment (Multislice, Triplane, 4D AutoLVQ, 4D AutoLAQ, AFI LA)
LV assessment: K. Papadopoulos / LA assessment: L. Badano
13:00-13:15 How to assess left ventricle with 2D AFI, triplane AFI Myocardial work, 4D strain (lecture) K. Papadopoulos
13:15-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:00 Workstation session III: LV assessment (triplane AFI-Myocardial work, 4D strain) K. Papadopoulos
15:00-15:30 Evaluation of right ventricle by 4D echocardiography (lecture) L. Badano
15:30-15:45 Coffee Break
15:45-16:15 Advanced assessment of right ventricular function: coupling, RV strain, myocardial work, AI derived contractile function L. Badano
16:15-17:15 Live scanning on Vivid Pioneer and E95 (all participants)
17:15-19:00 Workstation session ΙV: RV assessment (4D and strain) L. Badano
20:00 Dinner
2nd Day: Valvular assessment/Transcatheter interventions
09:00-09:30 4D aortic valve and annulus assessment – TAVI preparation (lecture) L. Badano
09:30-10:15Workstation session V: AoV analysis K. Papadopoulos
10:15-10:45 Mitral valve assessment (lecture) K. Papadopoulos
10:45-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Workstation session VI: MV analysis (4D zoom-full volume TTE and TOE, 4D AutoMVQ, Flexislice for VCA and MVA in mitral stenosis, Understanding DMR and FMR cases) K. Papadopoulos
12:30-13:00 4D Tricuspid valve assessment (lecture) L. Badano
13:00-13:45 Lunch Break
13:45-15:00Workstation session VII: TV analysis (4D zoom, Full volume, 4D AutoTVQ) L. Badano
15:00-16:00 Live scanning on Vivid Pioneer and E95 (all participants)
How to plan and guide Transcatheter Interventions:
16:00-16:45 Workstation session VIII: How to screen and guide patients for ASD closure (lecture and EchoPAC analysis) K. Papadopoulos
16:45-17:00Coffee Break
17:00-17:30 Tricuspid regurgitation: which patient should be treated and what are our transcatheter treatment options? (lecture) L. Badano
17:30-18:30 Workstation IX: How to screen and guide patients suitable for: Mitral-TEER (lecture and EchoPAC analysis) K. Papadopoulos
End of course
PHOTOS
Bileaflet prolapse-barlow disease demonstrated with 3D TOE
3D enface view of mitral valve
4D analysis of volumes and EF of left ventricle