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…
Background Whether morphologic left ventricular (LV) changes in elite athletes are associated with altered diastolic properties is undefined. The aim of this study was to investigate LV diastolic properties in…
Susana Perese, BS, RVT, FASE The following is an interview with Susana Perese, BS, RVT, FASE by Fadi Shamoun, MD, FASE. Susana currently serves as a sonographer representative on the…
Neil J. Weissman, MD, FASE Did you know… • About 600,000 people die of heart disease in the United States every year—that’s 1 in every 4 deaths. • Heart disease…
