Patrick D. Coon, RCCS, RDCS, FASE, Chair, Council on Cardiovascular Sonography Every two years the American Society of Echocardiography has a changing of the guard with respect to the Council…
Bradley S. Taylor, MD, MPH Mary Beth Brady, MD, FASE Confucius is credited with saying “To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.”…
An upgrade of the guidelines for chamber quantification recently has been published. The primary purpose of this guideline document is to set standard measurements, labels, and orientations so that there…
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…
Susan E. Wiegers, MD, FASE, FACC As I assume the Presidency of the ASE, I have to acknowledge how surprised the echocardiography fellow would have been to know that 27…
There are very few people in the world of echocardiography for whom we have more respect than Dr Feigenbaum. In fact, it is quite difficult to argue with someone of…
Sanfilippo et al . raise two important concerns pertaining to our article in JASE . In our study, we found that the ratio of right ventricular to left ventricular end-diastolic diameter,…
Khemasuwan et al . retrospectively evaluated a cohort of 211 patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) with acute pulmonary embolism (PE). The investigators examined the correlation between echocardiographic parameters and…
Background There is a paucity of data on left ventricular (LV) rotational physiology, twist, and torsional mechanics in preterm infants. The principal aims of the present study were to assess…
Background Noninvasive diagnostic tools for right ventricular (RV) dysfunction measurements are increasingly being used, although their association with the pathologic mechanisms of dysfunction is poorly understood. Although investigations have focused…
