Advanced Fetal Heart Ultrasound Course with Simulation
Course Overview
This advanced one-day course is designed for participants who are already confident in assessing common cardiac defects and wish to enhance their diagnostic skills for more complex congenital heart diseases. It is intended for those who have already mastered the fundamental skills of fetal cardiac screening.
The program focuses on the detailed evaluation of complex congenital heart defects, with particular emphasis on differential diagnosis, an essential component for accurate interpretation and appropriate prenatal counseling.
Through interactive lectures and high-fidelity simulation sessions, participants will refine their diagnostic accuracy and learn structured approaches for case interpretation and prognostic definition.
Learning Objectives
Acquire a systematic approach to the prenatal diagnosis of cardiac defects.
Review complex fetal cardiac anomalies and their characteristic ultrasound features.
Develop the ability to perform accurate differential diagnoses.
Adapt management strategies and parental counseling based on precise diagnoses.
Scientific Program
09:00 – 09:15 | Introduction and Rationale of the Course
09:15 – 09:30 | Lecture 1: Abnormalities of Atrial and Ventricular Septation
09:30 – 10:00 Simulation Session 1: complete balanced atrio-ventricular septal defect, partial atrial-septal defect, ventricular septal defect
10:00-10:15 Lecture 2: Right Heart Anomalies
10:15 – 10:45 Simulation Session 2: Ebstein’s Anomaly, Pulmonary Stenosis, Pulmonary Atresia with Intact Ventricular Septum
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:15 Lecture 3: Left Heart Anomalies
11:15 – 11:45 Simulation Session 3: Aortic Stenosis moderate and critical, Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
11:45-12:00 Lecture 4: Univentricular Heart
12:00 – 12:30 Simulation Session 4: Double-Inlet Single Ventricle, Tricuspid Atresia with VSD, unbalanced atrio-ventricular septal defect
12:30-12:45 Lecture 5: Abnormalities of Systemic Venous Returns
12:45- 13:15 Simulation Session 5: Persistent left superior vena cava, interruption of inferior vena cava with azygos continuation
13:15- 14:15 Lunch Break
14:15-14:30 Lecture 6: Conotruncal Anomalies
14:30- 16:00 Simulation Session 5: Tetralogy of Fallot, Pulmonary atresia with VSD, Truncus arteriosus, Transposition of the great arteries, corrected transposition of the great arteries, Double outlet right ventricle
16:00-16:15 Lecture 7: Aortic Arch Anomalies
16:15- 16:45 Simulation Session 7: Coarctation of the aortic arch, interruption of the aortic arch, right aortic arch, double aortic arch
16:45- 17:00 Lecture 8: Situs Anomalies
17:00- 17:30 Simulation Session 7: Left and right isomerism