{"id":38413,"date":"2013-09-01T18:08:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T22:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=fellowship-training&#038;p=38413"},"modified":"2013-09-01T18:08:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T22:08:58","slug":"thank-you-dr-messika-zeitoun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2013\/09\/01\/thank-you-dr-messika-zeitoun\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You, Dr. Messika-Zeitoun!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Several Cardiology Fellows who are attending ESC.13 in Amsterdam this week are blogging for CardioExchange. The Fellows include\u00a0<strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/members\/paddy-barrett300\/\">Paddy Barrett<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/members\/mlouishandoko748\/\">Louis Handoko<\/a><\/strong>, and\u00a0\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/members\/amanda-vest134\/\">Amanda Vest<\/a><\/strong>. For more of our ESC.13 coverage of late-breaking clinical trials, interviews with the authors of the most important research, and blogs from our fellows on the most interesting presentations at the meeting, check out our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/voices\/esc-13-headquarters\/\">Coverage Headquarters<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For my training, I recently started seeing out-clinic patients. One of the challenges I am struggling with is the management of patients with apparently asymptomatic aortic stenosis. This morning, there happened to be a session about this specific topic, so I was very eager to attend.<\/p>\n<p>I was especially pleased with the third speaker. David Messika-Zeitoun offered some very simple solutions for cases where guidelines fail to guide clinical decision-making. Sometimes, echocardiographic data is ambiguous (low aortic valve area with a paradoxical low pressure gradient over the valve) and exercise testing is not possible or inconclusive. He proposed to use quantification of aortic valve calcification, easily determined by non-contrast CT scanning. I will definitely study his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/20720250\">paper<\/a>! Thank you, Dr. Messika-Zeitoun, and thank you, ESC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Handoko shares his appreciation for an illuminating session on the management of asymptomatic aortic stenosis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":769,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1187,326,195],"class_list":["post-38413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-cardiology-conferences","tag-esc","tag-fellowship-training-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/769"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}