Last weekend we held What the Clip! Echo Symposium at Bethesda Hospital East. It reviewed the echo assessment of the mitral valve with both TTE and TEE. At the end of the symposium, George Daniel, MD, FACC reviewed a MitraClip case with us. He presented a case that he had recently performed at Bethesda Hospital.
Last week we introduced Dr. Christina Michael, a Florida cardiologist that will be speaking at our upcoming symposium. As we get closer to the MitraClip Conference we would like to introduce you to another speaker, Elyce Kwasman, MSN, ACNP-BC.
As the MitraClip procedure becomes more available to hospitals it is imperative that sonographers understand the goals of the transthoracic echocardiogram prior to the MitraClip procedure. In this blog we will review the 7 components for a complete MitraClip echo protocol..
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