Injury prevention for sonographers
Daniel P. Bourque, MS, RCS, FASE Echosonographers get hurt. A lot. According to a 2008 study by Coffin, 90% of us report incidence of muscular skeletal injuries. By picking up…
The Expanding Role of Peri-Procedural Echocardiography for Guidance of Transcatheter Structural Heart Interventions
G. Burkhard Mackensen, MD, PhD, FASE Sunil V. Mankad, MD, FASE Transcatheter interventions for structural heart disease (SHD) represent an exponentially growing field, which has expanded beyond established procedures such…
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…
Celebrating Sonographers All Year
Susan E. Wiegers, MD, FASE, FACC October is Medical Ultrasound Awareness Month and seeks to increase awareness of ultrasound and sonography. In the days when all of our medical students…
Three-Dimensional Echocardiography: A Powerful New Tool in the Evaluation of Mitral Annular Structure and Dynamics
We read with interest the letter by Dr Silbiger regarding our article “Mitral Annular Dynamics in Mitral Annular Calcification: A Three-Dimensional Imaging Study” and offer the following response. The mitral…
Pitfalls in the Echocardiographic Evaluation of Mitral Annular Size, Shape, and Dynamics in Patients with Mitral Annular Calcification
In the July 2015 issue of JASE , Pressman et al . report their observations on the effects of mitral annular calcification (MAC) on mitral annular size, shape and dynamics using…
Clinical Utility of Measuring Epicardial Adipose Tissue Thickness with Echocardiography Using a High-Frequency Linear Probe in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease
Background The relationship between epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) and coronary artery disease (CAD) has recently attracted a great deal of attention in the medical community. The objective of this study…
Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound: A Novel Noninvasive, Nonionizing Method for the Detection of Brown Adipose Tissue in Humans
Background Brown adipose tissue (BAT) consumes glucose when it is activated by cold exposure, allowing its detection in humans by 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) with computed tomography…
Risk Stratification for Cardiovascular Disease in Women in the Primary Care Setting
Background Traditional risk assessment tools classify the majority of middle-aged women at low risk despite cardiovascular (CV) disease’s affecting >50% of women and remaining the leading cause of death. Ultrasound-determined…
Novel Approach to Three-Dimensional Echocardiographic Quantification of Right Ventricular Volumes and Function from Focused Views
Background Echocardiographic assessment of the right ventricle is difficult because of its complex shape. Three-dimensional echocardiographic (3DE) imaging allows more accurate and reproducible analysis of the right ventricle than two-dimensional…
