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…
Jennifer D. Walker, MD, FACS In an era when patients are more complex and procedures and technology are more advanced, a new paradigm is evolving. The cardiac and general surgical…
Kathleen Rosendahl-Garcia, BS, FASE, RDCS, RVT The spring and summer of 2009 were very busy on the International Space Station (ISS). There were international crews of astronauts and cosmonauts on…
Sanjiv Kaul, MD, FASE Over 2000 members of ASE, or 14% of our membership, are from 116 countries outside the USA. Of these about a fourth are from Canada, and…
Echocardiographic assessment of a 72-year-old woman revealed a posterior mitral valve prolapse with an unusual central regurgitation jet. The use of three-dimensional (3D) transesophageal echocardiography elucidated the mismatch between morphologic…
Background Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) represents a generalized myopathic process affecting both ventricular and atrial myocardium. We aimed to assess left atrial (LA) function by two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography and its…
The authors describe the case of a 79-year-old man with prior mitral valve repair and a maze procedure who developed recurrent atrial fibrillation, in whom transesophageal echocardiography revealed an accessory…
A 58-year-old man with a remote history of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), status post chemotherapy, radiation, and peripheral blood stem cell transplantation, presented with splenic nodular sclerosis classical Hodgkin…
Background The echocardiographic diagnosis of anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA) can be challenging. The aim of this study was to assess the hypothesis that diagnosis can…
Background Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is associated with considerable phenotypic heterogeneity. Previous studies have shown a relationship between the degree and location of hypertrophy and the prognosis of patients. The aim…
