Background The mechanisms of improvement of left ventricular (LV) function with cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) are not yet elucidated. The aim of this study was to describe a new tool…
Leo Lopez, MD, FASE, Chair of the Council on Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) Council on Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease (PCHD) is one…
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…
Neil J. Weissman, MD, FASE “Imagine a movie that includes every day for the rest of your life…” What would that movie show? What parts are you most proud of?…
Background There is growing interest in limb contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEU) perfusion imaging for the evaluation of peripheral artery disease. Because of low resting microvascular blood flow in skeletal muscle, signal…
Backgrounds Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF) frequently, but not always, progresses to persistent/permanent AF. The aim of this study was to evaluate the echocardiographic predictors of AF progression in patients with…
Background Heart failure (HF) readmissions are a common and serious problem of heterogeneous etiology. Left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction has not been found to be a consistent risk marker. However,…
Background Sickle cell anemia (SCA) is associated with cardiac abnormalities and premature death. The aims of this study were to identify early markers of cardiac dysfunction through ventricular strain and…
Background Left ventricular global longitudinal systolic strain (GLS) has been shown to be superior to ejection fraction in detecting subclinical dysfunction in patients with cancer and predicting mortality in patients…
Background To understand the influence of myocardial bridging (MB) on left ventricular (LV) function, myocardial function was studied in patients with MB of the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD)…
