Friends Don’t Let Friends Miss Out on Echo CME
Have you earned credits for continuing medical education (CME) by reading the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography (JASE)? If you have not, then you have been missing out…
Uncommon Doppler Echocardiographic Findings of Severe Pulmonic Insufficiency
Background Two-dimensional and Doppler echocardiography are standard methods to assess the severity of pulmonic insufficiency (PI). However, methods to define severity of PI – including the current published guidelines –…
Feasibility of Pulmonary Valve Imaging Using Three-Dimensional Transthoracic Echocardiography
Background The pulmonary valve (PV) is rarely visualized in short axis with conventional two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography (TTE). Thus, the true incidence of abnormal PV morphology in patients undergoing TTE is…
Improvement of Ultrasonic Myocardial Properties after Aortic Valve Replacement for Pure Severe Aortic Stenosis: The Predictive Value of Ultrasonic Tissue Characterization for Left Ventricle Reverse Remodeling
Background Aortic stenosis leads to left ventricular hypertrophy and accumulation of fibrillar collagens. The analysis of integrated backscatter (IBS) parameters provides information on ultrasonic myocardial properties. Methods The study population…
Comprehensive Echocardiographic Assessment of the Hemodynamic Parameters of 285 Tricuspid Valve Bioprostheses Early after Implantation
Background Doppler-derived hemodynamic data for normal tricuspid valve bioprostheses are limited. Methods A comprehensive retrospective Doppler echocardiographic assessment of 285 normal Carpentier-Edwards Duraflex, Medtronic Mosaic, St. Jude Medical Biocor, Carpentier-Edwards…
Myocardial Tissue Characterization and Aortic Stenosis
In this issue of JASE , Fijalkowski et al. describe an improvement in myocardial reflectivity induced by aortic valve replacement (AVR) in severe aortic stenosis (AS), using integrated backscatter (IBS) analysis,…
The Incremental Prognostic Value of Echocardiography in Asymptomatic Stage A Heart Failure
Objective This multicenter study consisted of echocardiographic examination of subjects with stage A heart failure (HF) with cardiovascular risk factors and normal electrocardiogram and clinical examination results to (a) define…
Acute Thrombus Formation as a Complication of Right Ventricular Biopsy
Background While using echocardiography to guide endomyocardial biopsy (EMB), the authors have identified acute intracardiac thrombus formation related to the procedure, a hitherto unreported complication. The aims of this study…
Global Longitudinal Strain as a Major Predictor of Cardiac Events in Patients with Depressed Left Ventricular Function: A Multicenter Study
Background The risk stratification of patients with left ventricular (LV) dysfunction can be performed using echocardiographic parameters such as the ejection fraction (EF). Recently, new technologies based on deformation measurements…
ABCD’s of Heart Failure: Echo-ing through the First Stage
In his insightful and witty educational offering, Dr. Seuss’s ABC , Theodor Seuss Geisel poses the intriguing rhetorical question “Big A, little a, what begins with A?” He might have…
