Theory and Practice of Echocardiography

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025

Course director

Number of hours/semester

lectures: 10 hours

practices: 14 hours

seminars: 0 hours

total of: 24 hours

Subject data

  • Code of subject: OAE-ECG-T
  • 2 kredit
  • General Medicine
  • Elective modul
  • autumn
Prerequisites:

OAK-KAR-T finished

Course headcount limitations

min. 5 – max. 7

Topic

Echocardiography plays a pivotal role in the examination of the heart. Expert cardiac opinion or therapeutic decision cannot be made without this examination. During the course we demonstrate the indications of this imaging technique as well as the way of the image making such as the echocardiography axes and parameters. Different real cardiac cases, like the most frequent cardiac pathologies will be shown during the practice oriented lessons. During the practice lessons students will have the chance to try the image making on their own.

Lectures

  • 1. Week 1: Anatomy of the heart - Kenyeres Péter
  • 2. Week 1: Transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography - Magyar Klára
  • 3. Week 2: Systolic and diastolic function of the left ventricle, wall motion abnormalities, speckle tracking technique and 4D echocardiography - Habon Tamás
  • 4. Week 2: Systolic and diastolic function of the left ventricle, wall motion abnormalities, speckle tracking technique and 4D echocardiography - Habon Tamás
  • 5. Week 4: Role of the echocardiography in the diagnosis of myocardial infarction, stress echocardiography - Halmosi Róbert
  • 6. Week 4: Echocardiography diagnosis of the valvular heart diseases - Halmosi Róbert
  • 7. Week 7: Echocardiography diagnosis of the right sided heart diseases - Gál Roland
  • 8. Week 7: Diagnosing the inflammatory and other heart diseases with echocardiography - Gál Roland
  • 9. Week 9: Cardiomyopathies - Rábai Miklós
  • 10. Week 9: Small animal echocardiography - Deres László

Practices

  • 1.

    Week 3: Hands-on training (Echocardiography Lab)

    - Rábai Miklós
  • 2.

    Week 3: Hands-on training (Echocardiography Lab)

    - Rábai Miklós
  • 3.

    Week 5: Hands-on training (Echocardiography Lab)

    - Rábai Miklós
  • 4.

    Week 5: Hands-on training (Echocardiography Lab)

    - Rábai Miklós
  • 5.

    Week 6: Hands-on training (Echocardiography Lab)

    - Rábai Miklós
  • 6.

    Week 6: Hands-on training (Echocardiography Lab)

    - Rábai Miklós
  • 7.

    Week 8: Hands-on training (Echocardiography Lab)

    - Rábai Miklós
  • 8.

    Week 8: Hands-on training (Echocardiography Lab)

    - Rábai Miklós
  • 9.

    Week 10: Hands-on training (Echocardiography Lab)

    - Rábai Miklós
  • 10.

    Week 10: Hands-on training (Echocardiography Lab)

    - Rábai Miklós
  • 11.

    Week 11: Hands-on training (Echocardiography Lab)

    - Rábai Miklós
  • 12.

    Week 11: Hands-on training (Echocardiography Lab)

    - Rábai Miklós
  • 13.

    Week 12: Final exam (Echocardiography Lab)

    - Rábai Miklós
  • 14.

    Week 12: Final exam (Echocardiography Lab)

    - Rábai Miklós

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

Recommended educational material: lectures and practices.

Notes

Recommended literature

Libby, Bonow, Mann, Tomaselli, Bhatt, Solomon: Braunwald’s heart disease.

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Maximum two (4 hours) times absence is tolerated, above this students will automatically be excluded from the grading.

Mid-term exams

Final exam will be an oral exam hold in the Echocardiography Lab. During the exam students have to recognize and evaluate the showed echocardiography axes, images, parameters and pathological abnormalities of the heart

Making up for missed classes

Compensation of the absence is not possible.

Exam topics/questions

Final exam will be taken by the students at end of the semester. Final exam will be an oral exam in the Echocardiography Lab. During the exam students have to recognize and evaluate the showed echocardiography axes, images, parameters and pathological abnormalities of the heart.

Examiners

  • Rábai Miklós

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

  • Rábai Miklós