2013 Council on Cardiac and Vascular Sonography
Elizabeth McIlwain, MHS, RCS, RDCS, FASE I vividly remember attending my first ASE Scientific Sessions meeting in the early 1990s in Washington DC. I was amazed that people, many of…
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…
Barometer in the Storm—Carotid Artery Plaque Quantified by Three-Dimensional Ultrasound
Amer M. Johri, MD, FASE J. David Spence, MD, FAHA To the clinician treating cardiovascular disease, carotid ultrasound is an exciting and practical imaging biomarker, vigorously being explored and implemented…
The “Alphabet Soup” of Federal Healthcare Agencies
Benjamin F. Byrd III, MD, FASE The federal government has tremendous influence over the delivery of healthcare in this country. What initially seems a small, insignificant change in federal policy…
Comparison of Echocardiographic Measurements of Left Ventricular Volumes to Full Volume Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Normal and Diseased Rats
Background Clinical two-dimensional (2D) and clinical three-dimensional echocardiography are validated against cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR), the gold standard for left ventricular (LV) volume measurement. In rodents, there is no…
Authors’ Reply
We read with interest Dr. Cantinotti’s letter, in which he raises important issues pertaining to the challenges of performing and interpreting pediatric quantitative echocardiography. We agree that many sources of…
Current Pediatric Nomograms Are Only One Source of Error for Quantification in Pediatric Echocardiography: What to Expect from Future Research
I read with interest the article by Mawad et al. titled “A Review and Critique of the Statistical Methods Used to Generate Reference Values in Pediatric Echocardiography,” recently published in JASE…
Application of Speckle-Tracking in the Evaluation of Carotid Artery Function in Subjects with Hypertension and Diabetes
Background Speckle-tracking enables direct tracking of carotid arterial wall motion. Timing intervals determined with carotid speckle-tracking and slopes calculated from carotid artery area versus cardiac cycle curves may provide further…
Myocardial Mechanical Remodeling after Septal Myectomy for Severe Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Background Septal myectomy for symptomatic patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) is a well-established procedure for symptomatic relief. Myocardial mechanics are abnormal in patients with HOCM, demonstrating low longitudinal strain,…
Admission Wall Motion Score and Quantitative ST-Segment Depression in the Assessment of 30-Day Mortality in Patients with First Non–ST-Segment Elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes
Background Whether admission myocardial wall motion score (WMS) in non–ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes might be a better predictor of 30-day mortality than currently recognized prognostic markers is unknown. Methods…
