Extracorporeal support, in the form of cardiopulmonary bypass, is used frequently in the operating room for physiologic support during cardiac surgery. However, in patients with severe respiratory and/or cardiac failure,…
Background In patients with chronic aortic regurgitation (AR), systolic wall stress and volume overload affects left ventricular (LV) systolic function and remodeling. The aim of this study was to assess…
Background Changes in the peripheral vasculature occur in patients with aortic stenosis (AS). The aims of the present study were to characterize peripheral arterial waveforms and aortic pulsewave velocity (PWV)…
Background The percutaneously implanted Edwards SAPIEN valve (Edwards Lifesciences, Irvine, CA) consists of cusps mounted within a stent. The individual impact of the stent and cusps on transvalvular flow and…
Strain is “stretching” in lay language, and “deformation” in technical terms, and can be used to measure and express myocardial deformation during contraction. Strain is a dimensionless quantity and is…
It has been more than 25 years since Hegrenaes and Hatle and Currie et al revolutionized the diagnostic approach to aortic stenosis by demonstrating an excellent correlation between aortic valve systolic…
Background A recent American College of Cardiology Foundation and American Society of Echocardiography document updated previous appropriate use criteria (AUC) for echocardiography. The aim of this study was to explore…
Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) for a variety of cardiac imaging procedures were developed in response to the dramatic increase in the performance of and expenditures on cardiac imaging over the…
Mary Beth Brady, MD, FASE Sanjay Dwarakanath, MD The psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy predicted that “Tomorrow’s illiterate will not be the man who can’t read; he will be the man who…
Patricia Pellikka, MD, FASE As I expect my year as ASE president to fly by, like most times do when one is engaged with good friends and interesting work, I…
