Speaker Name: Prof. Guy Lloyd, Consultant Cardiologist (Echocardiography), Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute, Cleveland Clinic. 

Access this session to:

• Understand limitations of EF alone and integrate 2D Simpson biplane EF, 3D volumes, wall-motion analysis, and long-axis indices such as MAPSE and tissue Doppler.
• Learn how to assess diastolic function using ASE/EACVI parameters, including E/A ratio, e′, E/e′, LA volume index, and TR velocity.
• Recognize the role of GLS and LA strain in detecting subclinical LV dysfunction before EF decline, including in cardio-oncology.
• Identify disease-specific strain patterns such as apical sparing in cardiac amyloidosis and regional strain reduction in MI and HCM.
• Evaluate the use of contrast echocardiography for improving LV and RV visualization and measurement accuracy when image quality is suboptimal.