Sometimes You Have to Tilt Your Head and Strain to Take a Picture of the Truth
“Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available… a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.” Fifty years ago, Apollo 8 orbited…
Association of Aortic Root Dilation from Early Adulthood to Middle Age with Cardiac Structure and Function: The CARDIA Study
Background The human aorta dilates with advancing age. However, the association between progressive aortic dilation with aging and cardiac remodeling has not been established in studies of community-dwelling adults. The…
Performance of a Simplified Dichotomous Phenotypic Classification of Bicuspid Aortic Valve to Predict Type of Valvulopathy and Combined Aortopathy
Background A simplified classification of bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) morphology using only the orientation of fused cusps was recently proposed. The aim of this study was to test whether it…
Strings of the Heart
In this issue of the Journal, Kehl et al. describe the benign outcome of flail mitral leaflet with moderate mitral regurgitation (MR). They conducted a retrospective study of their echocardiographic database…
Echocardiographic Features and Clinical Outcomes of Flail Mitral Leaflet without Severe Mitral Regurgitation
Background Flail mitral leaflet is a common complication of degenerative mitral regurgitation (MR) and is generally equated with severe MR. However, a flail mitral leaflet is not always associated with…
Looking Back, Looking Ahead, Revisited
Almost 10 years ago, as I took over the job of Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography (JASE), I wrote my first Editors’ Page, which was published…
