Rebecca T. Hahn, MD, FACC, FASE The relationship between surgeons and anesthesiologists or surgeons and cardiologists can often be at best commensal, but at worst adversarial. These interactions also occur…
Kenneth Horton, RCS, RDCS, FASE Over the past several years the Council on Cardiovascular Sonography has received many inquiries as to why we do not have travel grants available to…
Background Anatomic characteristics of the cavotricuspid isthmus (CTI) have been reported to be related to the outcome of atrial flutter ablation therapy. However, preprocedural evaluation of CTI anatomy using modified…
Background Military jet fighter pilots are routinely exposed to acceleration (+Gz) forces. This recurrent exposure may influence various cardiac parameters. A few previous studies have evaluated the impact of exposure…
Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1853), now known as the Prince of Mathematics or the Greatest Mathematician Since Antiquity, was born to a poor family in the German duchy of Braunschweig-Wolfbuttel. His…
Background Several studies using echocardiography identified epicardial adipose tissue (EPI) as an important cardiometabolic risk marker. However, validation compared with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computed tomography has not been…
Background The clinical assessment of left atrial function during atrial fibrillation is challenging and often inaccurate because of the beat-to-beat variability in the cycle length. The aim of this study…
Background Deceleration time (DT) of early mitral inflow (E) is a marker of diastolic left ventricular (LV) chamber stiffness that is routinely measured during the quantitation of LV diastolic function…
Background The aim of this study was to determine the feasibility, accuracy, and reproducibility of a novel tracking-based echocardiographic ejection fraction (EF) assessment method in comparison with traditional methods based…
