“Keeping Up” without being “Held Up”
Susan E. Wiegers, MD, FASE, FACC Our professional society is based on maximizing the quality and value of cardiac ultrasound for our patients. One of the reasons many of us…
Valvular Regurgitation Using Portable Echocardiography in a Healthy Student Population: Implications for Rheumatic Heart Disease Screening
Background There is increasing use of portable echocardiography as a screening test for rheumatic heart disease (RHD). The prevalence of valvular regurgitation in healthy populations as determined using portable echocardiography…
Continuing Education and Meeting Calendar
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…
Quality Improvement Implementation: Improving Reproducibility in the Echocardiography Laboratory
Background Interpretative variability can adversely affect echocardiographic reliability, but there is no widely accepted method to minimize variability and improve reproducibility. Methods A continuous quality improvement process was devised that…
Tissue Velocities and Myocardial Deformation in Asymptomatic and Symptomatic Aortic Stenosis
Background Assessment of myocardial longitudinal function has proved to be a sensitive marker of deteriorating myocardial function in aortic stenosis, demonstrated by both color Doppler tissue imaging and recently by…
Guidelines for the Echocardiographic Assessment of Atrial Septal Defect and Patent Foramen Ovale: From the American Society of Echocardiography and Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions
Attention ASE Members: The ASE has gone green! Visit www.aseuniversity.org to earn free continuing medical education credit through an online activity related to this article. Certificates are available for immediate…
Echocardiography in the Management of Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices: Recommendations from the American Society of Echocardiography
Attention ASE Members: The ASE has gone green! Visit www.aseuniversity.org to earn free continuing medical education credit through an online activity related to this article. Certificates are available for immediate…
26 thAnnual American Society of Echocardiography Scientific Sessions Highlights, June 12–16, 2015
ASE 2015–2016 Board of Directors and Society leaders gathered for their annual meeting in Boston. 2015 ASE Scientific Sessions program chair Rebecca Hahn, MD, FASE (right) receiving her commemorative plaque…
Highlights of the 26 thScientific Sessions’ Pediatric Congenital Track
Carolyn A. Altman, MD, FASE, FAHA Piers Barker, MD, FASE, FAAP The Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease track at the 2015 ASE Scientific Sessions in Boston, MA highlighted the depth…
ASE 2015: Boston Was Wicked Awesome!
David Adams, ACS, RDCS, FASE and Jayne Cleve, BS, RDCS The ASE’s 26 th Annual Scientific Sessions was held in Boston, MA, June 12–16, 2015. If you were unable to…
