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This advanced clinical module provides an in-depth, case-based exploration of the anatomical and hemodynamic challenges associated with repaired atrioventricular septal defects (AVSDs) in adult patients. Centered around a complex clinical case of a 33-year-old male presenting with severe AV valve regurgitation and progressive pulmonary hypertension.
Participants will learn the limitations of standard echocardiography and the critical role of adjunctive multimodality imaging. The module demonstrates exactly when and how to integrate transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) to pinpoint specific mechanisms of regurgitation, and cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging for highly accurate ventricular volume and function assessments.

Learning Objectives:
Review the anatomy and echocardiographic evaluation of AVSDs
Understand the role of multimodality imaging
Assess and manage pulmonary vascular disease
Determine surgical timing and post-operative follow-up
CME Information: 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)â„¢
CME Expiration: February 28, 2029 (CME Credits must be claimed by this date.)
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Description:

This advanced clinical module provides an in-depth, case-based exploration of the anatomical and hemodynamic challenges associated with repaired atrioventricular septal defects (AVSDs) in adult patients. Centered around a complex clinical case of a 33-year-old male presenting with severe AV valve regurgitation and progressive pulmonary hypertension.

Participants will learn the limitations of standard echocardiography and the critical role of adjunctive multimodality imaging. The module demonstrates exactly when and how to integrate transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) to pinpoint specific mechanisms of regurgitation, and cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging for highly accurate ventricular volume and function assessments.

 
Learning Objectives: 
  • Review the anatomy and echocardiographic evaluation of AVSDs
  • Understand the role of multimodality imaging
  • Assess and manage pulmonary vascular disease
  • Determine surgical timing and post-operative follow-up

CME Information: 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™

CME Expiration: February 28, 2029 (CME Credits must be claimed by this date.)

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Accreditation Statement & CME Information (Pending Approval)

The American Society of Echocardiography is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Society of Echocardiography designates this activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program, the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) MOC program, and/or the American Board of Anesthesiology’s (ABA) Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology Program® or MOCA 2.0®. It is ASE’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM and ABP MOC points and/or ABA MOCA 2.0®.   Physicians will earn MOC and/or MOCA 2.0 points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity.

ARDMS and CCI recognize ASE’s certificates and have agreed to honor the CME credit hours toward their registry requirements for sonographers.

Disclosures:

ASE is committed to ensuring that its educational mission, and all accredited continuing educational programs provide a protected space to learn, teach, and engage in scientific discourse free from influence from organizations that may have an incentive to insert commercial bias into education.

While a monetary or professional affiliation with an ineligible company does not necessarily influence a speaker’s presentation, the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education and policies of the ACCME require that all financial relationships with ineligible companies* be identified and mitigated prior to engaging in an accredited CE activity. In accordance with these policies, ASE actively identified relevant financial relationships between faculty in control of this accredited CE activity and ineligible companies and implemented mitigation strategies to eliminate any potential influence from persons or organizations that may have an incentive to insert commercial bias in this activity. (*Companies that are ineligible to be accredited in the ACCME System (“ineligible companies”) are those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, reselling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.)

The following faculty members have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies:

  • Sumeet Vaikunth, MD
  • Melissa Wasserman, RCCS, RDCS, FASE
  • Dongngan T. Truong, MD, FASE
  • Shubhika Srivastava, MD, FASE
  • Anurag Sahu, MD

All relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies listed for the following faculty members have been mitigated:

  • None

Members of the ASE CME Committee members (not serving as faculty) do not have any financial relationships with ineligible companies.  Click here for a list of these members.

None of the ASE staff who were involved in the planning and implementation of this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies.  Click here for a list of ASE staff members.

No commercial support was provided for this activity.

 

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