Special Focus Session

SF 10a - Normal or abnormal cardiac imaging

July 14, 14:00 - 15:30 CEST

SF 10a-1
5 min
Chairperson's introduction
SF 10a-2
20 min
The spectrum of normal cardiac appearances in athletes
1. To learn to use the wide spectrum of gender and sport type specific upper normal limits of an athlete's heart.
2. To understand the difference between a normal balanced adaptation versus an abnormal adaptation of the athlete's heart.
3. To recognise the overlap between the athlete's heart and known cardiomyopathies such as dilating, hypertrophic, non-compaction, and arrhythmogenic (right ventricular) cardiomyopathy.
SF 10a-3
20 min
The normal ageing heart
1. To understand changes in cardiac structure and function in older individuals.
2. To define the role of coronary CT angiography in elderly patients.
3. To depict normal MRI findings of the ageing cardiovascular system.
SF 10a-4
20 min
Adults with congenital heart disease
1. To understand the prevalence and distribution of "grown-up" congenital heart disease in adults.
2. To explain the change of the diagnostic paradigm for adult congenital heart patients towards a less invasive, reproducible, and accurate imaging approach based on MRI and CT.
3. To illustrate the pivotal role of cardiac radiologists in the GUCH Heart Team.
4. To provide basic knowledge of how to scan cardiac malformations that may present at any adult centre.
SF 10a-5
25 min
Panel discussion: Normal or pathological heart? That is the question