José Luis Zamorano is Professor of Medicine at the University Complutense in Madrid and Director of the Cardiovascular Institute at the University Clinic San Carlos, Madrid. His key research interests include ischaemic heart disease, cardiovascular risk factors and imaging modalities. He serves on numerous Editorial Boards, including the European Journal of Echocardiography, the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Heart Journal. He has authored over 200 articles for peer-reviewed journals.

Professor Bax is Director of Non-invasive Imaging and Director of the Echo Laboratory in the Department of Cardiology at Leiden University Medical Centre, The Netherlands. He is also Past-President of the European Society of Cardiology.

Professor Knuuti is Director of Cardiology at University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland. Professor Knuuti's main research field is noninvasive imaging especially using PET, SPECT, echocardiography, MRI and CT. The main research focus has been on cardiovascular diseases especially coronary artery disease and heart failure. In these conditions, the focus has been in understanding the physiology and pathophysiology of these diseases as well in developing new tests for diagnosis and therapy guidance. He has 823 publications, of which 553 are original articles and reviews.

Professor Patrizio Lancellotti is Head of the Intensive Care Cardiology unit at the University of Liège Hospital Center and Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Liège. His research has led to significant progress in the care of patients suffering from functional mitral insufficiency.

Professor Pinto received MD and PhD from Lisbon School of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Portugal and completed fellowships at Santa Maria University Hospital (Lisbon, Portugal), and Stanford University Medical School (CA, USA), where he was Clinical Attending in the Echo lab. He is Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, Professor of Cardiology and Head of the Cardiovascular Department. He was President and founder of the European Association of Echocardiography (2003-2004) and President of the ESC (2014-2016). He is President Elect of WHF, FESC, FACC, FASA, FSCAI, FASE and Honorary Member of several international societies. He was Editor in Chief of the Portuguese Journal of Cardiology (1999-2015), and Member of the Editorial Board of several international journals. He published over 600 indexed articles and has presented over 1500 lectures/chairmanships at national and international meetings. His main areas of interest are cardiovascular imaging among others.

Bogdan A. Popescu is Professor of Cardiology at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Carol Davila" in Bucharest, Romania. He is head of the Third Cardiology Department and director of the echocardiography laboratory at the Institute of Cardiovascular Disease "Prof. C. C. Iliescu" in Bucharest. He published more than 180 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and more than 25 book chapters and books in cardiology and cardiac imaging. His main fields of research interest are on myocardial function/heart failure, valvular heart disease and cardiomyopathies.

Professor Sechtem is the Project Coordinator for Research, Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus Stuttgart and also the Associate Professor of Medicine and Cardiology at the University of Tübingen

• Section 1: Technical Aspects of imaging


• 1: Andreas Hagendorff, Stephan Stobe, and Bhupendar Tayal: Conventional Echocardiography - basic principles


• 2: Danilo Negila, Riccardo Liga, Stephan Nekolla, Frank M. Bengel, Ornella Rimoldi, and Paolo G. Camici: Nuclear Cardiology (PET and SPECT) - basic principles


• 3: Gianluca Pontone and Filippo Cademartiri: Cardiac CT - basic principles


• 4: Jan Bogaert, Rolf Symons, and Jeremy Wright: CMR - basic principles


• 5: Kevin Fox and Marcelo Di Carli: Training and Competence in Cardiovascular Imaging


• Section 2: New technical developments in imaging techniques


• 6.1: Silvia Gianstefani and Mark Monaghan: Three-dimensional echocardiography


• 6.2: Thor Edvardsen, Lars Gunnar Klaeboe, Ewa Szymczyk, and Jaroslaw Kasprzak: Assessment of myocardial function by speckle tracking echocardiography


• 7: Roxy Senior, Harald Becher, Fausto Pinto, and Raj Khattar: Contrast echocardiography


• 8: Covadonga Fernandez-Golfi and Jose Zamorano: Echocardiography in the cathlab: fusion imaging and use of intracardiac echocardiography


• 9: Antti Saraste, Sharmila Dorbala and Juhani Knuuti: Hybrid imaging: PET-CT and SPECT-CT, PET-MRI


• 10: Stephan Achenbach, Jonathan Leipsic, and James Min: New technical developments in CT: anatomy, FFR and machine learning


• Section 3: Valvular heart disease


• 11: Philippe Pibarot, Helmut Baumgartner, Marie-Annick Clavel, Nancy Côté and Stefan Orwat: Aortic valve stenosis


• 12: Julien Magne and Patrizio Lancellotti: Aortic valve regurgitation


• 13: Ferande Peters and Eric Brochet: Mitral valve stenosis


• 14: Daniel Rodríguez Muñoz, Kyriakos Yiangou, and Jose Zamorano: Mitral valve regurgitation


• 15: Denisa Muraru and Elif Sade: Tricuspid and pulmonary valve disease


• 16: Philippe Unger and Madalina Garbi: Multiple and mixed valvular heart disease


• 17: Joseph F. Maalouf and Hector Michelena: Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography for valvular surgery


• 18: Luigi Badano and Denisa Muraru: Valvular prostheses


• 19: Daniel Rodríguez and Álvaro Marco: Endocarditis


• Section 4: Procedures in Intensive Cardiovascular Care Unit


• 20: Itzhak Kronzon, Juan Manuel Monteagudo, Francesco Faletra, Priti Mehla and Muhamed Saric: Imaging guided transseptal puncture and transcatheter closure of patent ovale foramen/atrial septal defect, ventricular septal defect and paravalvular leaks


• 21: Louisa O'Neill, Iain Sim, John Whitaker, Steven Williams, Henry Chubb, Pál Maurovich-Horvat, Mark O'Neill and Reza Razavi: Imaging for electrophysiological procedures


• 22: Victoria Delgado, Jeroen Bax, and Arnold Ng: Transcatheter aortic valve implantation


• 23: Nina Wunderlich, Robert Siegel, Ronak Rajani, and Nir Flint: Transcatheter mitral valve interventions


• 24: Rebecca Hahn: Transcatheter tricuspid valve repair/replacement


• 25: Kuberan Pushparajah and Alessandra Frigiola: Transcatheter pulmonic valve replacement


• Section 5: Coronary artery disease


• 26: Thor Edvardsen, Marta Sitges, and Rosa Sicari: Echocardiography and detection of coronary artery disease


• 27: Richard Underwood, James Stirrup, and Danilo Neglia: Nuclear cardiology and detection of coronary artery disease


• 28: Marcelo Di Carli: PET-CT and detection of coronary artery disease


• 29: Stephan Achenbach and Pal Maurovich-Horvat: MCST and detection of coronary artery disease


• 30: Eike Nagel, Juerg Schwitter, and Sven Plein: CMR and detection of coronary artery disease


• 31: David Newby, Marc Dweck, Jagat Narula, and Rong Bing: Imaging the vulnerable atherosclerotic plaqueImaging the vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque


• 32: Paolo Camici and Ornella Rimoldi: Imaging microvascular disease


• Section 6: Heart Failure


• 33: Rainer Hoffmann and Frank A.Flachskampf: Evaluation of systolic LV function and LV mechanics


• 34: Bogdan A. Popescu, Carmen C. Beladan and Maurizio Galderisi: Evaluation of diastolic LV function


• 35: Lawrence Rudski, Petros Nihoyannopoulos, and Sarah Blissett: Evaluation of RV function


• 36: Luc Pierard, Paola Gargiulo, Pasquale Perrone-Filardi, Bernhard Gerber, and Joseph Selvanayagam: Assessment of viability


• 37: Albert Flotats and Ignasi Carrio: Imaging cardiac innervation


• 38: Victoria Delgado and Jens Uwe Voigt: Cardiac resynchronization therapy: selection of candidates


• 39: Marta Sitges and Erwan Donal: Cardiac resynchronization therapy: optimization and follow-up


• 40: Susanna Price and Alessia Gambaro: Echocardiography evaluation in extracorporeal support


• 41: Riccardo Asteggiano, Patrizio Lancellotti, Maurizio Galderisi, Stephane Edhery, and Marie Moonen: Cardio-oncology


• Section 7: Cardiomyopathies


• 42: Nuno Cardim, Alexandra Toste, and Robin Nijveldt: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy


• 43: Massimo Lombardi, Silvia Pica, Antonia Camporeale, Alessia Gimelli, and Dudley Pennell: Infiltrative cardiomyopathy


• 44: Upasana Tayal, Sanjay Prasad, Tjeerd Germans, and Albert van Rossum: Dilated cardiomyopathy


• 45: Kristina Haugaa and Perry Elliott: Other genetic and acquired cardiomyopathies


• Section 8: Peri-myocardial disease


• 46: Allan Klein, Bernard Cosyns, and Aldo Schenone: Pericardial effusion and tamponade


• 47: Alida Caforio, Maurizio Galderisi, Massimo Imazio, Renzo Marcolongo, Yehuda Adler, and Ciro Santoro: Constrictive pericarditis


• 48: Ali Yilmaz, Heiko Marholdt, and Udo Sechtem: Myocarditis


• 49: Teresa Lopez-Fernandez and Peter Buser: Cardiac masses and tumors


• Section 9: Aortic disease: aneurysm and dissection


• 50: Arturo Evangelista and Gisela Teixidó-Turá: Gender considerations in acute coronary syndromes


• 51: Jose Rodriguez Palomares and Arturo Evangelista: Role of CMR


• 52: Rocio Hinojar and Raimond Erbel: Role of MSCT


• Section 10: Adult congenital heart disease


• 53: Lindsay Smith, Mark K. Friedberg and Luc Mertens: Role of echocardiography


• 54: Giovanni Di Salvo and Francesca Pluchinotta: Role of CMR and MSCT