Background Chronic ischemia related occult systolic dysfunction of the right ventricle is difficult to detect using traditional echocardiography. The aim of this study was to verify the diagnostic value of…
The right ventricle differs from the left ventricle in many anatomic and physiologic aspects. This disparity renders the right ventricle less vulnerable to ischemia and less susceptible to myocardial injury…
Scott T. Reeves, MD, MBA, FASE As the immediate past chairman of the Council for Perioperative Echocardiography (COPE), I “volunteered” to write the history of the council for an upcoming…
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…
Todd Belcik; Marti McCulloch MBA, BS, RDCS, FASE and Brad Roberts BS, RCS, RDCS, FASE all served as faculty at Echo Hawaii in January. As I sit here at the…
Benjamin F. Byrd, III, MD, FASE Throughout my career as an echocardiographer, striving to stay on the cutting edge of both clinical practice and research, I have been incredibly fortunate…
We thank Drs Chubb and Simpson for their interest in our article. They correctly stress the importance of body surface area (BSA) estimation and observer error in the calculation of…
We read with great interest the study by Kutty et al ., who reported normal values for superior and inferior vena cava dimensions, systemic venous filling fractions, inferior vena cava “collapsibility…
We agree with the conclusions in the article by den Dekker et al . regarding the caution with which Z scores should be interpreted, particularly in neonates. It is well established…
We thank the correspondents for their insightful letter highlighting the theoretical disadvantages of (1) image acquisition of the inferior vena cava (IVC) in its long axis and (2) normalization of…
