12/22/2023 0 Comments Eye of the beholder 3 aseWhile it is certain that much of the presentations was governed by the agenda of the session and the time allotted for the lecture, there nevertheless appeared to be a dichotomy between the two groups in the approach to determining the degree of regurgitation. In the ASE meeting, cases of valve regurgitation were accompanied by a vast array of specific measurements, that were used to determine severity, often to the decimal point. The ultrasound videos were shown and it was commented that it could be clearly seen that the patient had mild, moderate, or severe regurgitation, according to the case. The Structural Summit presented a number of cases of mitral, aortic, and tricuspid regurgitation consisting only of the color Doppler flow images. However, the approach to the quantitation of the regurgitation that was taken in the two meetings was strikingly different. Both meetings dealt in-depth with valve regurgitation from both a diagnostic and therapeutic perspective. The ASE meeting, of course, was primarily devoted to non-invasive imaging. Although dealing broadly with structural heart disease, the Summit was largely devoted to interventional procedures, both surgical and transcatheter. One was the Structural Heart Disease Summit, and the other was the Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE). I recently had the opportunity to attend two meetings on consecutive days.
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