Sasha Shillcutt, MD, FASE The practice of perioperative medicine is often said to be unique; in what other arena do two or three physicians from completely different specialties work on…
The American Society of Echocardiography is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. ASE recognizes courses as supplements to formal training in…
Elizabeth F. McIlwain, MHS, RDCS, RCS, FASE, Chair, Council on Cardiovascular Sonography When advocacy is mentioned we tend to think of all the various acronyms, regulations, and governmental agencies that…
Benjamin F. Byrd, III, MD, FASE One of ASE’s primary missions is to advance cardiovascular patient care throughout the world. The 2 nd World Summit on Echocardiography, held October 25–27…
We would like to thank JASE for publishing our recent report regarding noninvasive estimation of pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR). We are humbled by the kind words of Opotowsky et al ….
We read with great interest the report by Abbas et al . titled “Noninvasive Assessment of Pulmonary Vascular Resistance by Doppler Echocardiography,” as we have recently published a derivation and validation…
We thank Drs Chemla and Herve for their interest in our report. The authors correctly state that they first derived the equation for estimation of mean pulmonary artery pressure from…
Background Apical ballooning syndrome (ABS) and obstructive coronary artery disease of the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) can both result in similar left ventricular apical wall motion abnormalities. The…
We want to congratulate Steckelberg et al. for their interesting study published in the May 2013 issue of JASE , the major part of their article being devoted to invasively deriving…
Background In the acute phase of myocardial infarction (MI), infarct size and microvascular obstruction (MVO) are important prognostic factors for cardiovascular outcome. MI size is a major determinant of myocardial…
