Meryl S. Cohen, MD, FASE, FACC, FAHA The Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease Steering Committee wishes you a happy and healthy new year. We are looking forward to the upcoming…
Carol Mitchell, PhD, RDMS, RDCS, RVT, RT(R), FASE The National Education Curriculum (NEC) is a document that can serve as an educational resource for sonography educators. The NEC is available…
Background The Valsalva maneuver, the most sensitive test for patent foramen ovale (PFO) detection, is difficult during transesophageal echocardiography (TEE), especially after sedation. The aim of this study was to…
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 I am writing this as I am returning home from the EuroEcho Imaging meeting in Leipzig, Germany and a…
We thank Kong et al. for their interest in our recent work, and we provide a response to their question as follows. After acquiring multiple consecutive single-beat three-dimensional full-volume data sets…
Background Myocardial perfusion (MP) imaging during stress myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE) improves the detection of coronary artery disease (CAD). However, its prognostic value to predict cardiac events in patients with…
The paper entitled “Cardiac Calcifications on Echocardiography Are Associated with Mortality and Stroke” by Lu et al, published in the December 2016 issue of JASE (J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2016;29:1171-8), has…
Background Right ventricular (RV) involvement has been described in Anderson-Fabry disease (AFD), especially in patients with established Fabry cardiomyopathy (FC). However, few and controversial data on RV systolic function are…
Background Previous studies have demonstrated that global longitudinal strain (GLS) is altered in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) in comparison with athletes. Nevertheless, these results rely on studies comparing sedentary…
