Echo Asia / Echo India 2026

Tentative Scientific Program

33Scientific Themes
134+Focused Topics
4Conference Days

Tentative Scientific Program

Shifting Paradigms in Cardiomyopathy

  • Redefining Cardiomyopathy — Integrating Etiology with phenotype
  • Non-dilated LV CMP — The lesser-known entity
  • Athlete’s Heart: Distinguishing pathology from supraphysiological adaptation
  • Multimodality imaging in CMP — no competition, only integration
  • Risk assessment & Prevention of SCD in Cardiomyopathies

Key Updates from Top Experts

  • Dilemmas in Diastology 2026
  • Recent advances — Top 5 highlights from ASE 2026
  • Cardiotoxicity under the lens: Current role of Echo in Oncology care

Unusual Suspects in Cardiology

  • Diversity of Cardiac Sarcoidosis — The great mimic
  • Loeffler’s Endocarditis and EMF: The Endocardial Enigma
  • The Unfinished battle against Infective Endocarditis: From suspicion to diagnosis
  • Echo Imaging in Takayasu Arteritis
  • Carcinoid Heart Disease: When valves tell the systemic story

Optimizing the Echo Lab

  • Best practices for Adult Echo Reporting (ASE Guidelines)
  • Normal values: The ASE 2027 Chamber Quantification Update
  • Tips & Tricks to improve your image quality in the lab
  • Echo Lab Pearls for daily practice

Echo at the Core of Structural Interventions

  • Intraprocedural echocardiography for mitral valve interventions: An overview
  • Degenerative & Functional MR — When to clip, when to operate
  • State-of-the-art transcatheter therapies for TR: Imaging considerations to patient selection
  • Echocardiographic navigation for tricuspid valve TEER — A step-by-step guidance

From VTI to MAPSE: Practical Echo Tools for Everyday Clinical Practice

  • Evaluation of VTI — a window to stroke volume
  • TDI velocities — Clinical applications
  • Use of Relative wall thickness — Insight into LV Remodeling
  • MAPSE — Another window into LV Performance

Masses of the Heart

  • Normal Variants (mass or masquerader)
  • Enigma of Right Atrial Masses
  • Approach to cardiac tumors unmasked — Myxoma to Metastasis
  • Vegetation mimics: when it’s not IE

Pulmonary Hypertension 2026: An Overview

  • Echocardiographic approach to suspected PH
  • Pulmonary Hypertension Phenotypes by imaging
  • RV–PA coupling — Significance in a patient with PH
  • Sotatercept — Is it a giant leap in PH management

Cardiomyopathy Mosaic: Diagnostic Clues

  • Unmasking Cardiac Amyloidosis: How early can it be diagnosed with imaging?
  • Dilated Cardiomyopathy in 2026: Beyond Ejection Fraction & Dimensions
  • Restrictive Cardiomyopathy: Integrating echo findings into diagnosis
  • Beyond the Trabeculae: The evolving understanding of LV Non-Compaction
  • Echo insights in Transient Cardiomyopathies

HFrEF Unplugged

  • Clinical, Echo & Therapeutic Navigation in worsening heart failure with congestion & diuretic resistance — AI powered Algorithms 2026
  • Ultrasound evaluation of organ congestion in HF
  • Vericiguat — A new horizon in stabilizing worsening HFrEF
  • Cardiac MRI in HFrEF — Unmasking fibrosis & Prognostic insights

HFpEF Redefined: Where to Focus

  • Deciding the probability with imaging, Scores and Biomarkers
  • Exercise Diastology unmasking HFpEF
  • HFpEF phenotypes — beyond diastolic dysfunction
  • Finerenone — targeting Inflammation, fibrosis and function in HFpEF

Right Heart Revolution

  • Echocardiographic evaluation of Right ventricle in 2026
  • 3D Echo of the Right Heart: Its value in clinical practice
  • Best practices to evaluate TR
  • Multimodality Imaging of the Right Heart: A Contemporary Approach

Venous Congestion Imaging — From RV to Renal Veins

  • VExUS Scoring (Venous Excess Ultrasound Score) — Basics & role in treating HF
  • Hepatic Vein Doppler — Normal to congestion
  • Portal Vein Pulsatility — A congestion marker
  • Role of Renal venous Doppler in HF patients

Ischemia Conclave

  • Ultrasound Theranostics: Sonothrombolysis in Acute MI
  • Etiology & Imaging in evaluation of MINOCA
  • Role of Stress Echo for the detection of microvascular disease in patients with chest pain
  • From Calcium to Coronary Plaque: Expanding role of Cardiac CT in IHD

Pericardium in Practice: Constriction to Tamponade

  • Constrictive Pericarditis vs Restrictive CMP: How to make the diagnosis
  • When does Pericardial effusion become Cardiac tamponade
  • From Effusion to Constriction: Echocardiographic Pitfalls and Effusive-Constrictive Pericarditis
  • MMI in the evaluation and management of pericarditis

Pearls & Perils of Thick Heart

  • Approach to Thickened left Heart: Step-by-Step Evaluation
  • Evaluation of HCM beyond wall thickness: Pearls and pitfalls
  • Echocardiography in the era of myosin kinase inhibitors
  • Unmasking apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Cardio Obstetrics: Echo at the Maternal-Cardiac Interface

  • Echo in the Dyspneic Pregnant women — Rapid clues for timely decisions
  • Pregnancy & Pulmonary Hypertension: Echo clues that save lives
  • Peripartum Cardiomyopathy: Early echo clues & Management
  • Valvular Heart Disease in Pregnancy: Echo based risk stratification for safe maternal outcomes

Aortic Valve Essentials

  • Understanding Aortic valve anatomy — The key to accurate imaging
  • Comprehensive 2D echo assessment of Aortic valve
  • Low gradient severe AS: A primer for the beginners
  • Stress Echo in AS: who benefits the most

Diagnostic Dilemmas in AS: New Paradigms

  • When gradients deceive — Classifying severity of AS in a patient with REDUCED LVEF
  • When gradients deceive — Classifying severity of AS in a patient with NORMAL LVEF
  • Myocardial fibrosis in severe AS: from strain imaging to CMR
  • Significant AS in multivalvular disease

Challenges in Managing AS

  • Asymptomatic severe AS: When to intervene
  • Very low gradient severe AS: Who doesn’t benefit from intervention
  • Aortic valve Matchmaking: Finding the best valve for every patient
  • Lifetime management of severe AS: Current concepts

Echo Nuggets

  • The high LVOT gradient Puzzle
  • Dilated LA — How to navigate the cause
  • Not every RWMA is CAD — Echo Insights
  • LV True aneurysm vs Pseudoaneurysm

Mastering the Right Ventricle

  • Morphology and physiology of RV — An overview
  • Assessment of RV systolic function: from TAPSE to 3D RVEF to RV strain
  • Assessing RV hemodynamics in PH
  • Dilated Right heart in an adult: A stepwise approach

AR Fundamentals

  • AR in young
  • AR — Quantification made simple
  • When should we operate in significant AR
  • Guiding surgical management of AR: Insights from echocardiography

AF — Closing the Gap

  • Who will Stroke? Echo markers of thromboembolic risk beyond CHA2DS2-VASC
  • Atrial myopathy — The missing link between AF, Stroke & HF
  • TEE for evaluation and management of AF
  • Anticoagulation in AF: Practical Decisions for everyday practice

The Obesity Pandemic: Fueling the Fire

  • Adiposity and Inflammation: The dual risk of ASCVD & Heart Failure — Imaging at the forefront
  • Metabolic Syndrome: What the Echo lab must not miss
  • Epicardial fat — Physiological Cushion to CV Risk indicator
  • GLP1 Analogues beyond weight loss — Tirzapetide

The Aortic Spectrum: From Silent Dilatation to Catastrophe

  • Multimodality imaging for risk prediction in Ascending aortic dilatation
  • Aortic Emergencies — Red Flags on Echo — Case illustrations
  • Bicuspid Aortic valve — Benign variant or future Aortopathy
  • RSOV — Visual Pearls

Mitral Valve Beyond Rheumatic Shadow

  • The modern surge of Degenerative MS
  • MAD & TAD — The missing link in Arrhythmias
  • Severe MAC and its implications
  • Barlow’s disease

Mitral Regurgitation Unplugged

  • Assessment of Secondary MR: the Challenges in quantification
  • Understanding Atrial functional MR: When atria is the culprit
  • When Severe MR is not severe: Common pitfalls in assessment
  • Primary asymptomatic Severe MR: Are we waiting too long to intervene

Navigating Mitral Maze

  • Mixed and multi valve Disease Hemodynamics — challenges & reporting tips
  • Discrepancies in assessing Mitral valve area
  • Echo Road Map for BMV suitability
  • Diastolic dysfunction and Importance of AV Compliance in MS

ASCVD — The Silent Culprit

  • ASCVD — More than just a blocked artery
  • Who is sitting on a Time Bomb — Risk assessment
  • LDL targets in 2026 — How low is enough
  • Beyond Statins: New weapons against ASCVD — Inclisiran

Critical Care Echocardiography

  • Echo in Acute Dyspnea: The bedside Game changer
  • Lung ultrasound in the intensive care
  • Pulmonary Embolism in the emergency room: Critical role of Echo
  • Echo in Mechanical Circulatory support
  • Role of TEE peri and post procedure

Advanced Echo: Evaluating Coronary Circulation

  • Myocardial Contrast Echo: Diagnostic Applications
  • Echo in differentiating Post PCI — Myocardial edema v/s MVO v/s IMH
  • How to assess coronary arteries in the adult by echo
  • Stress Echo in the era of CT Angio in suspected stable angina

Adult Congenital Heart Disease

  • ASD evaluation for intervention by TEE in adults
  • Mitral Regurgitation in Adults: Focus on ALCAPA & CCTGA
  • Aortic Arch Obstruction in Adults
  • Ventricular Septal Defect in Adults: Focus on indications for intervention, AR, RVOTO & SAM