Interventional Ultrasound: Another New Horizon
Ken Horton RCS, RDCS, FASE Do you remember the day when you would pick up the phone and learn that there was a stat echo in the cath lab? You…
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…
Save our Specialty: Embrace the Future!
James D. Thomas, MD, FASE Do you know what keeps me up at night? Beyond the sad state of Cleveland sports, I fear that over time, echocardiography may be reduced…
Highlights of an Important Consensus Statement from Our Council
Benjamin Eidem, MD, FASE In this communication, I wanted to highlight a recent publication from our council. Recently, there has been an increasing demand for training and utilization of focused…
Neonatologists and Echocardiography: Time to Move On
We thank Dr. Sinha and colleagues for their interest in our recently published recommendations on targeted neonatal echocardiography (TNE). The authors nicely explain the way they developed a TNE service…
Targeted Echocardiography in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
It has been more than a decade since the initial interest was expressed by neonatologists in acquiring basic skills in performing echocardiography. Their plea for a formalized training program has…
Core Lab Analysis of Baseline Echocardiographic Studies in the STICH Trial and Recommendation for Use of Echocardiography in Future Clinical Trials
Background The Surgical Treatment for Ischemic Heart Failure (STICH) randomized trial was designed to identify an optimal management strategy for patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy. Baseline echocardiographic examinations were required for…
Pulmonary Artery Pressure in Young Healthy Subjects
Background Pulmonary artery systolic pressure (PASP) is frequently measured noninvasively using transthoracic echocardiography. Normal values of PASP are based on studies performed in heterogeneous populations. The normal values of PASP…
Longitudinal Left Ventricular Function in Normotensive Prediabetics: A Tissue Doppler and Strain/Strain Rate Echocardiography Study
Background Although diabetes mellitus is well known to result in systolic and diastolic left ventricular (LV) dysfunction at the subclinical level, even when it is not accompanied by hypertension and…
Strain, Strain Rate, and the Force Frequency Relationship in Patients with and without Heart Failure
Background The aim of this study was to examine the effect of heart rate (HR) on indices of deformation in adults with and without heart failure (HF) who underwent simultaneous…
