Cardiac imaging is under intense scrutiny as a contributor to health care costs, with multiple initiatives under way to reduce and eliminate inappropriate testing. Appropriate use criteria are valuable guides…
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…
Elizabeth F. McIlwain, MHS, RDCS, RCS, FASE, Chair, Council on Cardiovascular Sonography Author’s note: Special thanks to Cathy Carolan, Ray Musarra, Joan Olson, Margaret Park, Rick Rigling, Cynthia Todd, and…
Amer Johri, MD, FASE, MSc, FRCPC Your 45-year-old asymptomatic patient comes to your clinic with a commercial screening result in-hand, demonstrating moderate carotid artery disease. What do you do? This…
Background Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common form of inherited cardiomyopathy. Echocardiography is the mainstay of screening and disease surveillance, and genetic testing has identified a carrier population without…
Benjamin F. Byrd, III, MD, FASE A major reason for founding the American Society of Echocardiography was to provide education in cardiovascular ultrasound to maximize the skills of its practitioners….
Background The aim of this study was to test whether acceleration time of systolic coronary flow velocity could contribute to the diagnosis of coronary stenosis in patients with microvascular dysfunction,…
Background Cardiac syndrome X (CSX) is characterized by typical angina and abnormal exercise test results, with normal coronary arteries. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging has shown subendocardial hypoperfusion in patients with…
Background Doppler echocardiography (DE) is widely used as a surrogate for right heart catheterization (RHC), the gold standard, to assess and monitor elevated right heart pressure in children. However, its…
Background Pulmonary hypertension (PH) increases right ventricular (RV) pressure, resulting in septal shift and RV dilation. Few echocardiographic measures have been used to evaluate severity and outcomes in children with…
