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Activities 2011

• Nucleus sessions
  
  –28.1.2011 Linz 
  
  –27.5.2011 Salzburg 
  
  –12.9.2011 Vienna 

• Echo tests 
  
  –12.5.2011 Vienna
  
  17 candidates

Activities 2010

• Nucleus sessions
  
  –-1/29/2010 Graz (all-day meeting)
  
  –-6/4/2010 Salzburg (shareholders' meeting)
  
  –-10/1/2010 Salzburg

• Echo tests
  
  –-5/20/2010 Vienna
  
  –-9/24/2010 Graz
  
  total of 29 candidates

Activities 2009

• Test for echocardiography I, 5/15/2009, Vienna
• Test for echocardiography II, 9/25/2009, Innsbruck
• Echo courses Vienna/Graz/Salzburg
• Nucleus meeting Linz 1/2009
• ASC Salzburg 2009 - Focus meeting
• Nucleus meeting 2009 ASC Salzburg
• OGIM sending live: echo for interventions
• Nucleus meeting Linz 10/2009

Activities 2008-2009

• Diagnosis guidelines
• Survey “Reference Echo Labs”
• Reference centres - lab monitoring
• E-platform administration - test platform
  EuroEcho Lyon focus meeting (rejected)

Activities 2008

• New training guidelines in transthoracic echocardiography
  Diploma in echocardiography (individual accreditation)

• Contacts to the European Association Echocardiography AEA
  Representation of the ASC WG for echo on the occasion of ESC and Euro Echo
  new "EAE Laboratory Standards and Accreditation":
  Spatial - mechanical - staff-related features
  Training – innovative technologies – advanced training - publications

• Study of echo lab features in Austria
  Basic echo labs
  Echo reference centres

• Definition of echo lab standards for Austria
  analogous to the EAE Laboratory Standards and Accreditation
  "basic level"
  "advanced level"

• Initiative "Austrian Echocardiographer"
  Making contact through biomed. analysts (FH) (KHH), DMTF, DGKP (Hospital Wels)

• Continuous adaptation of echo tests
  List of issues, sample cases

• Website: www.echokardio.at

• Creating a “diploma in transthoracic echocardiography for non-physician assisting personnel” in coordination with the management board of the ASC

Activities 2007

• Nucleus meetings / closed meetings:
  Linz January 26, 2007
  Salzburg May 31, 2007
  Vienna September 3, 2007

• Echo courses:
  Basic TTE courses, advanced courses, “refresher courses” in Vienna, Salzburg, Klagenfurt
  TEE Vienna, Salzburg

• New edition of four multimedia echo course CDs Salzburg
• New edition of a multimedia echo quiz CD Salzburg
• Echo video session Danube Hospice/SMZO
• Journal of Cardiology: Regular case reports ("Echo of the month")
• Exam in echocardiography, spring schedule 2007
  5/10/2007 AKH Vienna, 18 candidates
• Exam in echocardiography, fall schedule 2007
  9/21/2007 LKH (Regional Hospital) Graz West, 26 candidates

• Practical exam in echocardiography
  Decentralised work on the patient by members of the nucleus of the WG Echo

• Diploma presentations: Accreditation in transthoracic echocardiography upon passing the practical exam

• Seminar series on heart ultrasound: Practical update 2006/2007 Krems:
  Echo for the acutely ill patient
  The heart as a source of embolism
  The diastole
  Valve defects

• Advanced training course May 2007 in St. Poelten:
  “The difficult cardiological patient - echocardiography, MR, CT.
  An interactive case discussion”

• Annual Meeting of the ASC 2007 Salzburg
  Focus meeting: Interactive echocardiographic case discussion with quiz
  Meet the experts: A defective left ventricle - which functional diagnosis will help us?
  Cluster meeting of the WG for Cardiac Imaging
  Perspectives of the future: Cardiac imaging 2020 - Cluster meeting of the WG for Cardiac Imaging

• Echo update: 3/2-3/2007 Innsbruck - diseases of the left and right heart
• Joint event in pulmology and echocardiography: 5/12/2007 Innsbruck
  Pulmonary hypertension and echocardiography of the right heart
• Echocardiography today and tomorrow: 6/24-29/2007 St. Wolfgang
• Euro Echo: 12/4/2007 Lisbon

Research projects 2009

Ten years of echo tests by the Austrian Society of Cardiology

Demographics, results and outcomes - stadium: evaluation

Scientific Highlights 2009-2010

• Real-time Three Dimensional Echocardiography
  Key Reference Library on echocardiography and related topics
  Find out more about Real-time Three Dimensional Echocardiography by exploring the 3D Echo Box
  Key References
  "Multimodalitiy Comparison of Quantitative Volumetric Analysis of the Right Ventricle"
  Sugeng L, Mor-Avi V, Weinert L, Niel J, Ebner C, Steringer-Mascherbauber R, Bartolles R, Baumann R, Schummers G, Lang RM, Nesser HJ
  Comment:
  Volumetric quantification of RV volume, was tested on cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR), cardiac computed tomography (CCT), and real time 3D echocardiography (RT3DE) images. This analysis overcomes many of the known hurdles that impeded accurate assessment of this geometrically complex chamber in the past, and can be uses with all 3 imaging modalities. However, RV volume measurements are not interchangeable between modalities and, therefore, serial evaluations should preferably be performed using the same modality.
  Reference: JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2010 Jan; 3(1): 10-18

Scientific Highlights 2008-2009

• Echocardiography in interventional mitral valve reconstruction; Herz 2009 (Aachen)
• Direct measurement of vena contracta area by real-time 3-dimensional echocardiography for assessing severity of mitral regurgitation. Yosefy C; Am J Cardiol 2009
• Association of Left Atrial Stain and Stain Rate Assessed by Speckle Tracking Echocardiography with Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation, Tsai WC; Echocardiography 2009
• Three-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography: a novel approach in the assessment of left ventricular volume and function? Flu WJ, EHJ, 2009
• Global 2-dimensional strain as a new prognosticator in patients with heart failure. Cho, Marwick, JACC 2009
• Extracorporeal cardiac shock wave therapy ameliorates clinical symptoms and improves regional myocardial blood flow in a patient with severe coronary artery disease and refractory angina. Prinz, Bochum Case Report Med; 2009

Publikations 2007

• Stöllberger C, Schneider B, Finsterer J.
  Serious complications from dislocation of a Watchman left atrial appendage occluder.
  J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 2007;18:1-2 (IF 3.3)
• Bartel, T, Eggebrecht H, Müller S, Gutersohn A, Bonatti J, Pachinger O, Erbel R.
  Comparison of diagnostic and therapeutic value of tranesophageal echocardiography, intravascular ultrasonic imaging, and intraluminal phased-array imaging in aortic dissection with tear in the descending thoracic aorta (Type B).
  Am J Cardiol 2007; 99:270-274. (IF 3.015)
• Stöllberger C, Keller H, Finsterer J.
  Disappearance of left ventricular hypertrabeculation/noncompaction after biventricular pacing in a patient with polyneuropathy.
  J Card Fail. 2007;13:211-214 (IF 2,7)
• Stöllberger C, Winkler-Dworak M, Blazek G, Finsterer J.
  Prognosis of left ventricular hypertrabeculaton/noncompaction is dependent on cardiac and neuromuscular comorbidity.
  Intern J Cardiol. 2007;12:189-193 (IF 2.2)
• Stöllberger C, Winkler-Dworak M, Blazek G, Finsterer J.
  Association of electrocardiographic abnormalities with cardiac findings and neuromuscular disorders in left ventricular hypertrabeculation/non-compaction.
  Cardiology 2007;107:374-379 (IF 1.858)

Research projects

• Univ. Hospital for Internal Medicine, Department of Cardiology, Innsbruck
  3D Echocardiography
  Diagnostic value of 3D echocardiography in preoperative diagnostics among patients with. mitral valve defects.
  Application of intracardiac ultrasound for structural heart diseases
  Periinterventionelle Peri-interventional guidance for closure of interatrial communications

• Univ. Hospital for Internal Medicine II, Department of Cardiology, General Hospital Vienna

Multicenter
CIERRA Study of interventional PFO closure
PARTNER Study - Interventional AKE
STICH Studie
New chemotherapy - Echo (Glaxo) EGF102988 + EGF107679
Core research topics
Aortic stenosis
Speckle Tracking (CHD, defects, diastolic dysfunction, HTX)