European Echocardiography Course

The 7th European Echocardiography Course in Congenital Heart Disease will be organised in Barcelona, from Wednesday 3th to Saturday 6th October 2012.

This course provides a thorough overview of Echocardiography in Congenital Heart Disease and is aimed at Pediatric Cardiologists, Grown-up Congenital Heart Disease Specialists and Echocardiography Technicians working with Congenital Heart Disease patients. The programme strongly builds on the side-by-side comparison of morphology and imaging and discusses the major abnormalities found in clinical practice. The course prepares for the accreditation exam for 'Congenital Heart Disease Echocardiography' organised by the EAE/AEPC.

This course is endorsed by the Imaging Working Group of the Association of European Paediatric Cardiology (AEPC) in collaboration with the European Association of Echocardiography and Working Group of Grown-up Congenital Heart Disease of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).

Hoping to meet all interested colleagues in Barcelona in October 2012.

With kind regards,

Bart Bijnens, Georgia Sarquella-Brugada, Jan Marek, Folkert Meijboom and Luc Mertens

Symposium on Fetal Cardiac Function

The 1th Symposium on Fetal Cardiac Function will be organised in conjunction with the EEC in Barcelona, on Tuesday 2nd of October 2012.

In this symposium, the basic principles of cardiac function and deformation will be explained and the techniques for measuring this in the fetus will be presented and discussed by experts in the field. Additionally, the changes in pathological situation will be highlighted.

With kind regards,

Bart Bijnens, Eduard Gratacos and Fatima Crispi

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