G. Burkhard Mackensen, MD, PhD, FASE Sunil V. Mankad, MD, FASE Transcatheter interventions for structural heart disease (SHD) represent an exponentially growing field, which has expanded beyond established procedures such…
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…
Susan E. Wiegers, MD, FASE, FACC October is Medical Ultrasound Awareness Month and seeks to increase awareness of ultrasound and sonography. In the days when all of our medical students…
We read with interest the letter by Dr Silbiger regarding our article “Mitral Annular Dynamics in Mitral Annular Calcification: A Three-Dimensional Imaging Study” and offer the following response. The mitral…
In the July 2015 issue of JASE , Pressman et al . report their observations on the effects of mitral annular calcification (MAC) on mitral annular size, shape and dynamics using…
Background The relationship between epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) and coronary artery disease (CAD) has recently attracted a great deal of attention in the medical community. The objective of this study…
Background Brown adipose tissue (BAT) consumes glucose when it is activated by cold exposure, allowing its detection in humans by 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) with computed tomography…
Background Traditional risk assessment tools classify the majority of middle-aged women at low risk despite cardiovascular (CV) disease’s affecting >50% of women and remaining the leading cause of death. Ultrasound-determined…
Background Echocardiographic assessment of the right ventricle is difficult because of its complex shape. Three-dimensional echocardiographic (3DE) imaging allows more accurate and reproducible analysis of the right ventricle than two-dimensional…
Background The aim of this study was to investigate the incremental value of global longitudinal strain (GLS) by automated function imaging in respect to wall motion (WM) for the detection…
