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…
Background The differential diagnosis between pre- and postcapillary pulmonary hypertension (PH) is of major therapeutic relevance and thus requires optimal clinical probability assessment with echocardiography. Methods We prospectively analyzed 152…
The echocardiographic distinction between pericardial effusion and left-sided pleural effusion is made using the descending thoracic aorta (DTA) as a landmark. When imaged in the parasternal long-axis view, pericardial fluid…
The fundamental principle of stress echocardiography is that left ventricular (LV) abnormalities are usually not apparent in the early stages disease because of the heart’s functional reserve. In the routine…
With the increasing awareness of quality gaps in health care has come a growing appreciation that this is a problem that needs to be confronted head on. Echocardiography has embraced…
Background Point-of-care (POC) echocardiography may be helpful for mass triage, but such a strategy requires adequately trained sonographers at the remote site. The aim of this study was to test…
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The rapid technological developments of the past decade and the changes in echocardiographic practice brought about by these developments have resulted in the need for updated recommendations to the previously…
Background Two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography is an emerging modality for the assessment of systolic and diastolic myocardial deformation in a broad variety of clinical scenarios. However, normal values and physiologic limits…
Eric Kruse, BS, RDCS, RVT “The practice of echocardiography is always growing and changing, and the role of the cardiovascular sonographer has evolved with the profession. Today we find ourselves…
