Edgar Fuentes Molina

Cardiólogo. Ecocardiografista. Hospital San Juan de Dios, Hospital Clínica Bíblica. 🇨🇷San José, Costa Rica🇨🇷 Además: 🚵‍♀️ 🥁 ✈️ 🥅

[Edgar Fuentes Molina @drEdgarFuentes]

🔷 Our second Cardiac Imaging Workshop in Percutaneous Treatment of Mitral Regurgitation (MitraClip-TEER).

🫀Very grateful with support from @AbbottGlobal Nutricare 🇨🇷, and with attendes.

@AbbottGlobal
#mitraclip #teer
#echofirst
@ASE360 @NMerke @hahn_rt @VazyurVasquez

[Edgar Fuentes Molina @drEdgarFuentes]

🔹El pasado sábado 23 de mayo llevamos a cabo nuestro primer Taller de Imagen Cardiaca en Intervencionismo Mitral Percutáneo (TEER-MitraClip), con la participación y asistencia de colegas cardiólogos y residentes de cardiología del Posgrado UCR.
@AbbottNews #nutricare #mitraclip

[Jorge Faerron @cardiopedhnn]

The ventricular-structure relationship:: the #Torrent_Guasp_ventricular_myocardial_band (Part I: normal heart)

https://t.co/kzNf7TzP6V

[Edgar Fuentes Molina @drEdgarFuentes]

#3DEcho for #LAAC

The best way to guide this procedure (planning / implant / follow up).

#watchmanflx

@bostonsci @BostonSciLatam @BSCCardiology @SONECOM_AC @SOME_IC @ImagenCardiaca @iamritu @NMerke @MigueldeBoedo @MAecocardio @GEHealthCare @GE_IanMc @HugoMartinezCMR @ASE360

[Nicolas Merke @NMerke]

3D is an essential tool in echocardiography #echofirst

👉 Accurate LV volumes & function — beyond geometrical assumptions, minimizing foreshortening
👉 The only robust way to assess RV volumes & function without geometric limitations
👉 Key to understanding mechanisms of valvular regurgitation

But here’s the catch:
None of this works without mastering 2D first

👉 Reliable quantification starts with optimal 2D reference planes
👉 Full visualization of endocardial borders is non-negotiable
👉 Valve assessment always begins with precise 2D imaging
👉 #ALAMO

Transthoracic echocardiography is the perfect training ground for 3D in valvular heart disease
— every technique you refine here will elevate your TEE 3D performance

The secret to great 3D? It’s hidden in your 2D skills

🎯 The better your 2D imaging
→ the better your 3D datasets
→ the more confident your clinical decisions

[Jorge Faerron @cardiopedhnn]

3-D #echofirst assessment of the mitral valve in clinical practice.

https://t.co/vNFib5odML

[RTHahnMD @hahn_rt]

Finally able to treat our Symptomatic AR patients!! @HeartValveCntr @Columbia @JenaValve @ACCinTouch @escardio

[MA Garcia Fernandez @MAecocardio]

sesión webinar de acceso libre :¿Donde estamos en la imagen en el interencionismo estructural? no te la pierdas.Una nueva accionarial de formación libre de la SEIC @imagencardica

[Matters of the Heart 🫀 @MattersoftheH14]

#3DView #MitralValveProlapse

[MA Garcia Fernandez @MAecocardio]

Espectacular montaje

[Edgar Fuentes Molina @drEdgarFuentes]

@shadracg @GEHealthCare @MAecocardio @Sochicaroficial @SONECOM_AC @ImagenCardiaca @MigueldeBoedo @ASE360 @iamritu @VazyurVasquez @SISIACOficial @josejgdnews @fiore_corrado E95 Ultraedition

[Edgar Fuentes Molina @drEdgarFuentes]

🫀 3D view of mitral valve prolapse, with Flexilight @GEHealthCare .
P1 prolapse + P3 prolapse / flail with chordal rupture.

@MAecocardio @Sochicaroficial @SONECOM_AC @ImagenCardiaca @MigueldeBoedo @ASE360 @iamritu @VazyurVasquez @SISIACOficial
@josejgdnews @fiore_corrado

[Edgar Fuentes Molina @drEdgarFuentes]

@AMikaeilpour @GEHealthCare @MAecocardio @Sochicaroficial @SONECOM_AC @ImagenCardiaca @MigueldeBoedo @ASE360 @iamritu @VazyurVasquez @SISIACOficial @josejgdnews @fiore_corrado Poor 2D image 🟰 Poor 3D image.

[Edgar Fuentes Molina @drEdgarFuentes]

🫀 Thrombus (or tumor mass 😣) in transit through a PFO…
One in a million‼️

#echofirst
@ASE360 @ImagenCardiaca @Sochicaroficial @SONECOM_AC @echo_stepbystep @VazyurVasquez @SISIACOficial @MAecocardio @MigueldeBoedo @iamritu @VerwerftJan @JRodriPalomares @josejgdnews @escardio

[American Society of Echocardiography @ASE360]

We've released a State-of-the-Art Review, "The Role of Left Atrial Strain in Patients With Low CHA2DS2-VASc Scores: Refining Stroke Risk Assessment."

Read the @JournalASEcho article here: https://t.co/xR4IAdP4pm

[American Society of Echocardiography @ASE360]

🫀NEW GUIDELINE🫀
Read our newest #ASEGuideline, "Clinical Applications of Strain Echocardiography," developed in collaboration with the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging of the @escardio! https://t.co/MIijQG2I3F

[Edgar Fuentes Molina @drEdgarFuentes]

🔷 Congreso Nacional de Cardiología Costa Rica 🇨🇷 2025.

🔸Taller de Imagen Cardíaca en Cierre de Orejuela Izquierda.

@SISIACOficial
@bostonsci @GEHealthCare

[Edgar Fuentes Molina @drEdgarFuentes]

🇨🇷 Congreso Nacional de Cardiología 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣.

🔷 Cordialmente invitados, en especial al Módulo de Imágen Cardíaca (@SISIACOficial Day), y los Talleres.

El registro es gratuito, y está incluido con la inscripción al Congreso:

https://t.co/sWn97waWZt

Cupo limitado.

#sisiacday

[RTHahnMD @hahn_rt]

10 Issues for the Clinician in Tricuspid Regurgitation: 2025 ACC EDCP https://t.co/WVeKnC4OiW @JACCJournals @ACCinTouch @escardio @purviparwani @iamritu

[Natasha @nat_echo]

👀 lovely images!!!