What is Twitter? How Do I Get Started? Why Should I Become a User?
Vera H. Rigolin, MD, FASE Twitter is an electronic platform where users share their thoughts, news, and ideas in under 280 characters of text. Users ‘follow’ each other to stay…
Echocardiography Core Laboratory Reproducibility of Cardiac Safety Assessments in Cardio-Oncology
Background As the potential for cancer therapy–related cardiac dysfunction is increasingly recognized, there is a need for the standardization of echocardiographic measurements and cut points to guide treatment. The aim…
Sonographer Career Development
Raymond Musarra, BSAS, RCS, RDCS, FASE Career development for sonographers begins when one makes the choice to study how ultrasound can be used to image the heart. After this initial…
Comparison of Feasibility, Accuracy, and Reproducibility of Layer-Specific Global Longitudinal Strain Measurements Among Five Different Vendors: A Report from the EACVI-ASE Strain Standardization Task Force
Background Despite standardization efforts, vendors still use information from different myocardial layers to calculate global longitudinal strain (GLS). Little is known about potential advantages or disadvantages of using these different…
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…
Normal Reference Ranges for Transthoracic Echocardiography Following Heart Transplantation
Background Heart function following heart transplantation (HTx) is influenced by numerous factors. It is typically evaluated using transthoracic echocardiography, but reference values are currently unavailable for this context. The primary…
Altered Left Ventricular Geometry and Torsional Mechanics in High Altitude-Induced Pulmonary Hypertension: A Three-Dimensional Echocardiographic Study
Background Changes in left ventricular (LV) torsion have been related to LV geometry in patients with concomitant long-standing myocardial disease or pulmonary hypertension (PH). We evaluated the effect of acute…
Echo Core Labs: Gold Standard or Fools’ Gold?
As for any commonly used biomarker, whether in clinical practice or clinical research, accuracy and reproducibility is of the utmost importance. Echocardiography is no exception. In fact, echocardiography is viewed…
Pulsed-Wave Doppler Recordings in the Proximal Descending Aorta in Patients with Chronic Aortic Regurgitation: Insights from Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
Background The pulsed-wave Doppler recording in the descending aorta (PWD DAO ) is one of the parameters used in grading aortic regurgitation (AR) severity. The aim of the present study…
Fetal Cardiac Function in Maternal Diabetes: A Conventional and Speckle-Tracking Echocardiographic Study
Background Intrauterine exposure to a diabetic environment is associated with adverse fetal myocardial remodeling. The aim of this study was to assess the biventricular systolic and diastolic function of fetuses…
