Background The aim of this study was to determine whether two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography can identify the myocardial damage detected by delayed enhancement (DE) magnetic resonance imaging via the differences in…
Background Although two-dimensional (2D) strain is widely used to assess left ventricular mechanics, the strain values derived from vendor-specific 2D speckle-tracking software are different even for the same subjects and…
Background Disagreement of strain measurements among different vendors has provided an obstacle to the clinical use of strain. A joint standardization task force between professional societies and industry was initiated…
Imagine this scenario: Sonographer: Here’s the study on Mr Jones, your patient with aortic stenosis. Physician: Wait, we’ve always done Mr Jones on the HDI-5000, and we need to keep…
Competency-based evaluation and training are the latest watchwords from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, now mandated in the Next Accreditation System and arriving on cardiology fellowships’ doorsteps in…
1 Introduction 1.1 Document Development Process 1.1.1 Writing Committee Organization The writing committee was selected to represent the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) and included…
Patrick D. Coon, RCCS, RDCS, FASE, Chair, Council on Cardiovascular Sonography Every two years the American Society of Echocardiography has a changing of the guard with respect to the Council…
Bradley S. Taylor, MD, MPH Mary Beth Brady, MD, FASE Confucius is credited with saying “To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.”…
An upgrade of the guidelines for chamber quantification recently has been published. The primary purpose of this guideline document is to set standard measurements, labels, and orientations so that there…
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…
