The Accidental Echocardiographer
James D. Thomas, MD, FASE, FACC, FAHA, FESC Do you recall the first time you encountered echocardiography? The first time you realized that sound could be used to make pictures…
2011-2012 Board of Directors
ASE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE President (term expires June 2012) James D. Thomas, MD, FASE Cleveland Clinic 9500 Euclid Ave., Desk J1-5 Cleveland, OH 44195 Email: president@asecho.org President-Elect (term expires June 2012)…
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…
TEE and Interventional Cardiology
Wendy L. Gross, MD, MHCM Douglas C. Shook, MD As the scope and complexity of percutaneous interventions for structural heart disease broadens, the need for precise, real-time adjunctive imaging becomes…
Left Ventricular Torsion by Two-Dimensional Speckle Tracking Echocardiography in Patient with A-Type Amyloid Heart Disease
Amyloidosis is a clinical disorder caused by extracellular and or intracellular deposition of insoluble abnormal amyloid fibrils that alter the normal function of tissues. Amyloid A amyloidosis is the most…
Always at a Crossroads
Every other year, in June, the leadership and membership of the board of the Council of Cardiac and Vascular Sonography goes through a transition. This year, we have some new…
Early Changes in Left Ventricular Long-Axis Function in Friedreich Ataxia: Relation with the FXNGene Mutation and Cardiac Structural Change
Objective Friedreich ataxia (FRDA) is an autosomal recessive condition due to a GAA triplet expansion in the FXN gene that causes increased left ventricular (LV) wall thickness and can progress…
Cardiac Resynchronization by Cardiosphere-Derived Stem Cell Transplantation in an Experimental Model of Myocardial Infarction
Background Cardiosphere-derived stem cell (CDC) transplantation can improve global left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) after myocardial infarction (MI). The aim of this study was to examine the effects of CDC…
Reversible Left Ventricular Regional Non-Uniformity Quantified by Speckle-Tracking Displacement and Strain Imaging in Patients with Acute Pulmonary Embolism
Background The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of acute right ventricular pressure overload (RVPO) on left ventricular (LV) function and regional uniformity using speckle-tracking displacement and…
Echo and Stem Cell Therapy: More Than Just an Ejection Fraction
In the beginning there is the stem cell; it is the origin of an organism’s life. It is a single cell that can give rise to progeny that differentiate into…
