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…
James D. Thomas, MD, FASE, FACC, FAHA, FESC How’s the weather where you are? Are those cold north winds beginning to blow? Cleveland in October is an exercise in transition,…
Rebecca T. Hahn, MD, FACC, FASE The relationship between surgeons and anesthesiologists or surgeons and cardiologists can often be at best commensal, but at worst adversarial. These interactions also occur…
Kenneth Horton, RCS, RDCS, FASE Over the past several years the Council on Cardiovascular Sonography has received many inquiries as to why we do not have travel grants available to…
Background Anatomic characteristics of the cavotricuspid isthmus (CTI) have been reported to be related to the outcome of atrial flutter ablation therapy. However, preprocedural evaluation of CTI anatomy using modified…
Background Military jet fighter pilots are routinely exposed to acceleration (+Gz) forces. This recurrent exposure may influence various cardiac parameters. A few previous studies have evaluated the impact of exposure…
Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1853), now known as the Prince of Mathematics or the Greatest Mathematician Since Antiquity, was born to a poor family in the German duchy of Braunschweig-Wolfbuttel. His…
Background Several studies using echocardiography identified epicardial adipose tissue (EPI) as an important cardiometabolic risk marker. However, validation compared with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computed tomography has not been…
Background The clinical assessment of left atrial function during atrial fibrillation is challenging and often inaccurate because of the beat-to-beat variability in the cycle length. The aim of this study…
