Updates on Echocardiography in Heart Failure

Updates on Echocardiography in Heart Failure

James N. Kirkpatrick, MD, Director of the Echocardiography Laboratory and Associate Professor of Medicine, provides an update on echocardiography and heart failure. This presentation will cover reasons for employing quantitative assessments of ventricular function, hemodynamic measurements provided by echocardiography, and emergent uses of strain imaging.


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James Kirkpatrick, MD

James Kirkpatrick, MD

Director of the Echocardiography Laboratory and Associate Professor of Medicine

Dr. Kirkpatrick is director of the Echocardiography Laboratory at the UW Medical Center and is associate professor of medicine. In addition to expertise in all areas of transthoracic, stress and transesophageal echocardiography, he has particular...

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