Background Doppler tissue imaging (DTI) has been used to evaluate myocardial velocity during ventricular filling, a means of characterizing diastolic function. Previous studies in older children have shown age-related increases…
Background Predischarge (pre-d/c) transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) is routine after surgery for congenital heart disease, but how it affects clinical care is unknown. The aim of this study was to test…
Introduction Document Development Process The Society of Pediatric Cardiology Training Program Directors (SPCTPD) board assembled a steering committee that nominated 2 chairs, 1 SPCTPD steering committee member, and 4 additional…
Daniel P. Bourque, MS, RCS, FASE Echosonographers get hurt. A lot. According to a 2008 study by Coffin, 90% of us report incidence of muscular skeletal injuries. By picking up…
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…
