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…
We read with great interest the report of Caselli et al. titled “Three-Dimensional Echocardiographic Characterization of Patients With Left Ventricular Noncompaction.” The authors demonstrated that real-time three-dimensional echocardiography (RT3DE) allows accurate…
In their recently published article, Sato et al. investigated the accuracy of echocardiographic measures of right ventricular (RV) systolic function (mean RV ejection fraction [RVEF], 38 ± 11%) in 37 patients…
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…
Not all that long ago, cardiovascular sonography was experiencing a severe shortage of technologists. Sonographers looking for employment had many options as to when they could move and where they…
The article on left ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy by Paterick et al. is superb, particularly the anatomic and echocardiographic images. My colleagues and I reported three fetal cases of this disorder as spongiform…
We were very interested to read the article by Oxborough et al. in the March issue of JASE . The authors found that right ventricular (RV) chamber dimensions were larger in…
