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…
Scott T. Reeves, MD, MBA, FASE The Council on Perioperative Echocardiography (COPE) has been very busy developing the basic and updating the comprehensive perioperative transesophageal documents. As the following ASE…
Oi Ling B. Kwan, RDCS Cardiac sonographers have always played an important role in echocardiography. Whether applying the technology daily as a diagnostic tool, participating in research and development of…
Background Patients with ventriculoarterial discordance, such as congenitally corrected and d-transposition of the great arteries, may undergo a morphologic left ventricular (LV) training strategy consisting of surgical pulmonary artery band…
Background It has been reported that localized high velocity may be recorded by continuous-wave Doppler interrogation through the smaller central orifices of bileaflet mechanical heart valves (BMHV) and that this…
Benjamin F. Byrd III, MD, FASE I am honored to assume the Presidency of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE). I follow in the footsteps of many distinguished cardiologists and…
Background Sleep disturbance caused by obstructive sleep apnea is recognized as a contributing factor to adverse cardiovascular outcomes. However, the effect of restless legs syndrome, another common cause of fragmented…
Objective To evaluate, by noninvasive coronary flow velocity reserve (CFVR), whether patients with asymmetric hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HC), with or without left ventricular outflow tract obstruction, demonstrate significant regional differences of…
Background Single ventricle (SV) exercise performance is impaired and limited by reduced ventricular preload reserve. The atrium modulates ventricular filling, and enhancement of atrial compliance can increase cardiac performance. We…
Background Long-term outcome in repaired tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) is related to chronic pulmonary insufficiency (PI), right ventricular (RV) dilation, and deterioration of RV function. The aim of this study…
