Carol Mitchell, PhD, RDMS, RDCS, RVT, RT(R), FASE Margaret M. Park (Koko), BS, ACS, RVT, RDCS, FASE The American Society of Echocardiography Council on Cardiovascular Sonography has had a busy…
Meryl S. Cohen, MD, FASE, FACC, FAHA The air is getting colder, the days are getting shorter, and the Council on Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease (PCHD) Steering Committee is…
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…
Allan L. Klein, MD, FASE, FRCP (C), FACC, FAHA, and FESC It seems that I am always sitting on planes writing these President’s Messages. As I was taking off to…
A Abstracts Abstracts. 2016;29:B2-B130 Adolescence Safety and efficacy of cardiac ultrasound contrast in children and adolescents for resting and stress echocardiography (Kutty et al). 2016;29:655-62 Alcohol drinking Imaging left atrial…
Background Left ventricular (LV) afterload could be associated with reduced myocardial contractility. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relative impact of increased afterload on LV myocardial deformation…
A Aakhus S ( see Murbraech et al). 2016;29:528-36 Abdelmoneim SS ( see Huang et al). 2016;29:491-502 (State-of-the-art review article) Abdul-Khaliq H ( see Schubert et al). 2016;29:670-8 Abdullah SM…
Background The American Heart Association aims to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease in this decade by improving seven ideal cardiovascular health (CVH) characteristics in the population. The aim of…
Background Clinicians rely on age- and size-specific measures of cardiac structures to diagnose cardiac disease. No universally accepted normative data exist for fetal cardiac structures, and most fetal cardiac centers…
The paper entitled “Multimodality Assessment of Ascending Aortic Diameters: Comparison of Different Measurement Methods” by Rodríguez-Palomares, published in the September 2016 issue of JASE (J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2016;29:819-26), has a…
