Thoracic Key

Andrew J. Powell, MD, Chair, 2014 ASE Scientific Sessions Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease Track Carolyn A. Altman, MD Track Co-Chair This is an important milestone year as the ASE…

We thank Dr DeGroff for his thoughtful comments and appreciate his concerns regarding our study design. Although it is true that the results of our study are based on echocardiographic studies…

I commend the work of Groh et al . looking at the differences in estimating right ventricular pressures (i.e., tricuspid valve gradients) using Doppler echocardiography compared with catheter-measured pressures. Doppler-derived tricuspid…

We would like to thank Dr Tozzi for his thoughtful letter regarding our report titled “Elevated Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Velocities on Exercise Stress Echocardiography May Be a Normal Physiologic…

I would like to congratulate Wittlieb-Weber et al . on their publication highlighting the variability of left ventricular outflow (LVOT) velocities during exercise in apparently healthy children. Their study also demonstrated…

We appreciate the comments of Cantinotti et al . Since the introduction of Z scores in cardiology, limitations in the use of current pediatric nomograms for the mitral valve and aortic…

We read with interest the article by den Dekker et al . titled “Comparability of Z -Score Equations of Cardiac Structures in Hypoplastic Left Heart Complex,” which was recently published in…

Background Handheld ultrasound is emerging as an important tool for point-of-care cardiac assessment. Although cardiac ultrasound skills are traditionally introduced during postgraduate training, the optimal time and methodology to initiate…