Monthly Archives: May 2014
Case Challenge #3
35-year-old female. History of pre-eclampsia. Peripartum echo 8 months ago: EF 25%. May have had viral symptoms.
Now with abdominal pain, no fever or viral symptoms
Troponin: 6.5 | Cath: normal coronaries | MRI: EF 15%
Case Challenge #2
Coronary Trio!
Download a PP file with images of 3 cases:
- 43yo male, chest pain
- 65yo female, significant aortic stenosis, pre-op
- 22yo male, asymptomatic
LINK TO DOWNLOAD PP FILE: 2014_05_14 SEFCI – Batlle – Coronary Trio
Prepared by Juan Batlle
Case Challenge #1
21yo female with bilateral lower extremity edema, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea.
See you there!
1 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33139.
Wednesday May 14th at 7:30.
Looking forward to seeing everyone!
Guest Speaker for May 14th!
We are honored to have Dr. Craig Asher to speak to the SEFCI group on Wednesday, May 14th.
TOPIC: HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY AND MRI: RISK STRATIFICATION FOR SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH.
Biographical Sketch:
Craig Asher, MD, is a cardiologist at Cleveland Clinic Weston. He is board-certified in internal medicine and cardiology, and he is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology. His specialty interests include valvular heart disease, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, restrictive cardiomyopathy, pericardial and aortic diseases.
Dr. Asher completed his undergraduate work at the University of Pennsylvania and received his medical degree from Tufts Medical School in Boston, Mass., followed by clinical training at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga., and the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. He was appointed to Cleveland Clinic in 1999, the year he received the Cleveland Clinic Cardiology Staff Teaching Award. He moved to the Cleveland Clinic Florida in 2004 to head the Cardiology Fellowship Program. Dr. Asher received the Cleveland Clinic Florida Cardiology Teaching award for the batch years of 2004-2007 and Cleveland Clinic Florida Educator of the Year award in 2012.
He has co-authored over 150 abstracts, manuscripts and book chapters and has coedited a book on echocardiography, Clinical Echocardiography: a self assessment tool. He has been an invited speaker and participant at national meetings on topics including echocardiography and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. He continues to be active in research and education in many areas of cardiology.
We look forward to seeing you there!