Meetings By Mail Global Advances in Echocardiography 2025

• Target Audience: cardiologists, echocardiographers, sonographers, and cardiovascular imaging physicians
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Release date: September 5, 2025

Topics include: Valvular heart disease, transcatheter valve procedures, stress echocardiography, mitral valve stenosis and regurgitation, TEER, transventricular neochordal implantation, prosthetic valve assessment, atrial septal defects, patent foramen ovale, left atrial appendage, aortic stenosis and regurgitation, infective endocarditis, aortic dissection, imaging for acute mechanical circulatory support and much more.

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Session 1: Valvular Heart Disease/Mitral Valve 1

Valvular Heart Disease and the Rise of Transcatheter Valve Procedures

Alison Duncan, MBBS, PhD, London, UK

Stress Echocardiography in Valvular Disease

Linda Gillam, MD, MPH

Transthoracic Echocardiographic Assessment for Mitral Valve Disease: When to Consider an MV Intervention?

Fabien Praz, MD  Berne, Switzerland

Transoesophageal Echocardiographic Assessment of Mitral Valve Regurgitation- Special Considerations for TEER and TMVR

Alison Duncan, London, UK

Panel Discussion

Multiple Faculty

Session 2: Mitral Valve 2

Transoesophageal Echocardiography Step-by-Step Procedural Guidance for Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement (TMVR)

Alison Duncan, MBBS, PhD, London, UK

Transoesophageal Echocardiography Step-by-Step Procedural Guidance for Mitral Valve Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair (TEER)

Michel Zuber, MD, Othmarsingen, Switzerland

Transoesophageal Echocardiographic Assessment of Mitral Valve Stenosis – Considerations for Balloon Valvuloplasty

Ali Vazir, MBBS, PhD, London, UK

Transoesophageal Echocardiography Step-by-Step Procedural Guidance for Transventricular Neochordal Implantation

Alison Duncan, MBBS, PhD, London, UK

Echoing Success: Optimizing Prosthetic Valve Assessment

Linda Gillam, MD, MPH

Session 3: Mitral Cases

Mitral TEER

Ee Ling Heng, MBBS, PhD, London, UK

Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement

Cesare Quarto, MD, PhD, London, UK

Mitral Valvuloplasty

Robert Smith, MD, London, UK

Transventricular Neochords

Rashmi Yadav, MD, London, UK

Session 4: Atral Septal Defects and Left Atrial Appendage

Atrial Septal Defect & Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) – Conservative Management, Percutaneous or Surgical Treatment?

Michael Rigby, MD, London, UK

Transthoracic and Transoesophageal Echocardiographic Assessment of Inter-atrial Septal Pathologies – Consideration for Transcatheter Closure Device

Wei Li, MD, PhD, London, UK

Transoesophageal Echocardiographic Assessment of Left Atrial Appendage – Is There Thrombus? Suitable for DC Cardioversion? Suitable Anatomy for Occlusion Devices?

Ali Vazir, MBBS, PhD, London, UK

Panel discussion

Multiple Faculty

Session 5: Tricuspid Valve 1

Advanced Transthoracic Echocardiographic Assessment of Tricuspid Valve Disease and Right Ventricle- Severity and Mechanism

Denisa Muraru, MD, PhD, Milan, Italy

Transoesophageal Echocardiographic Assessment of Tricuspid Valve Disease for TV Interventions – Case Selection for Tricuspid TEER Versus TTVR

Alison Duncan, MBBS, PhD, London, UK

Surgical and Transcatheter Intervention for Tricuspid Valve Disease – Update

Francesco Maisano, MD, Milano, Italy

Session 6: Tricuspid Valve 2

Transoesophageal Echocardiography Step-by-Step Guidance for Tricuspid Valve TEER

Ali Vazir, MBBS, PhD, London, UK

Transoesophageal Echocardiography Multiplanar Guidance for Tricuspid Valve TEER

Alexandros Papachristidis, MD, PhD, London, UK

Transoesophageal Echocardiography Step-by-Step Procedural Guidance for TTVR

Jim Newton, MBChB, MD, Oxford, UK

Session 7: Tricuspid Cases

Tricuspid TEER

Ee Ling Heng, MBBS, PhD, London, UK

Tricuspid TEER- Complex disease

Robert Smith, MD, London, UK

Tricuspid TMVR

Francesco Maisano, MD, Milano, Italy

Session 8: Aortic Valve and Aortic Disease

Pitfalls in the Echocardiographic Assessment of Aortic Stenosis and Regurgitation

Madalina Garbi, MD, Cambridge, UK

Transoesophageal Echocardiography for Aortic Valve Surgery

TC Aw, MD, London, UK

Role of Periprocedural Transoesophageal Echocardiography for Transcatheter Closure of Paravalvular Leaks

Alexandros Papachristidis, MD, PhD, London, UK

The Role of Echocardiography in the Detection and Management of Infective Endocarditis

Linda Gillam, MD, MPH

Aortic Dissection

Ali Vazir, MBBS, PhD, London, UK

Panel discussion

Multiple Faculty

Session 9: Echo for Circulatory and Respiratory Support

Imaging for Acute Mechanical Circulatory Support

Susanna Price, MD, PhD, London, UK

Echocardiography for MCS Devices

Hatem Soliman Aboumarie, MSc, London, UK