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The Role of Echocardiography in the Management of Patients Supported by Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
February 2012(Vol. 25 | No. 2 | Pages 131-141)
David Gerard Platts, John Francis Sedgwick, Darryl John Burstow, Daniel Vincent Mullany, John Francis Fraser

Limitations of Current Echocardiographic Nomograms for Left Ventricular, Valvular, and Arterial Dimensions in Children: A Critical Review
February 2012(Vol. 25 | No. 2 | Pages 142-152)
Massimiliano Cantinotti, Marco Scalese, Sabrina Molinaro, Bruno Murzi, Claudio Passino

Alteration in Subendocardial and Subepicardial Myocardial Strain in Patients with Aortic Valve Stenosis: An Early Marker of Left Ventricular Dysfunction?
February 2012(Vol. 25 | No. 2 | Pages 153-159)
Eiichi Hyodo, Kotaro Arai, Agnes Koczo, Yuichi J. Shimada, Kohei Fujimoto, Marco R. Di Tullio, Shunichi Homma, Linda D. Gillam, Rebecca T. Hahn

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Targeted Echocardiography in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
10 February 2012
Bharati Sinha, Mark H. Mirochnick, Sanjay Kumar, Alan M. Fujii
It has been more than a decade since the initial interest was expressed by neonatologists in acquiring basic skills in performing echocardiography. Their plea for a formalized training program has mos...
Three-Dimensional Mechanical Dyssynchrony and Myocardial Deformation of the Left Ventricle in Patients with Tricuspid Atresia after Fontan Procedure
10 February 2012
Po-Ki Ho, Clare T.M. Lai, Sophia J. Wong, Yiu-Fai Cheung
Background: The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that dyssynchronous contraction of functional single ventricles occurs in Fontan patients and is related to indices of myocardial deformati...
Mechanisms and Predictors of Mitral Regurgitation after High-Risk Myocardial Infarction
10 February 2012
Alessandra Meris, Maria Amigoni, Anil Verma, Jens Jakob Thune, Lars Køber, Eric Velazquez, John J.V. McMurray, Marc A. Pfeffer, Robert Califf, Robert A. Levine, Scott D. Solomon, Valsartan in Acute Myocardial Infarction (VALIANT) Investigators
Background: Mitral regurgitation (MR) has been associated with adverse outcomes after myocardial infarction (MI). Without structural valve disease, functional MR has been related to left ventricular (...
Neonatologists and Echocardiography: Time to Move On
30 January 2012
Luc Mertens, ASE Writing Group on Targeted Neonatal Echocardiography
We thank Dr. Sinha and colleagues for their interest in our recently published recommendations on targeted neonatal echocardiography (TNE). The authors nicely explain the way they developed a TNE serv...
Usefulness of the Right Parasternal Approach to Evaluate the Morphology of Atrial Septal Defect for Transcatheter Closure Using Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Transthoracic Echocardiography
30 January 2012
Nobuhisa Watanabe, Manabu Taniguchi, Teiji Akagi, Yasuharu Tanabe, Norihisa Toh, Kengo Kusano, Hiroshi Ito, Norio Koide, Shunji Sano
Background: The aim of this study was to demonstrate the feasibility and usefulness of addition of the right parasternal approach to the conventional left parasternal and apical approaches using two-d...

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Improvement in the Assessment of Diastolic Function in a Clinical Echocardiography Laboratory Following Implementation of a Quality Improvement Initiative
November 2011 (Vol. 24 | No. 11 | Pages 1169-1179)
Thomas V. Johnson, John D. Symanski, Sanjay R. Patel, Geoffrey A. Rose
EAE/ASE Recommendations for Image Acquisition and Display Using Three-Dimensional Echocardiography
January 2012 (Vol. 25 | No. 1 | Pages 3-46)
Roberto M. Lang, Luigi P. Badano, Wendy Tsang, David H. Adams, Eustachio Agricola, Thomas Buck, Francesco F. Faletra, Andreas Franke, Judy Hung, Leopoldo Pérez de Isla, Otto Kamp, Jaroslaw D. Kasprzak, Patrizio Lancellotti, Thomas H. Marwick, Marti L. McCulloch, Mark J. Monaghan, Petros Nihoyannopoulos, Natesa G. Pandian, Patricia A. Pellikka, Mauro Pepi, David A. Roberson, Stanton K. Shernan, Girish S. Shirali, Lissa Sugeng, Folkert J. Ten Cate, Mani A. Vannan, Jose Luis Zamorano, William A. Zoghbi
Recommendations for the Evaluation of Left Ventricular Diastolic Function by Echocardiography
February 2009 (Vol. 22 | No. 2 | Pages 107-133)
Sherif F. Nagueh, Christopher P. Appleton, Thierry C. Gillebert, Paolo N. Marino, Jae K. Oh, Otto A. Smiseth, Alan D. Waggoner, Frank A. Flachskampf, Patricia A. Pellikka, Arturo Evangelista
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EAE/ASE Recommendations for the Use of Echocardiography in New Transcatheter Interventions for Valvular Heart Disease
September 2011 (Vol. 24 | No. 9 | Pages 937-965)
Jose L. Zamorano, Luigi P. Badano, Charles Bruce, Kwan-Leung Chan, Alexandra Gonçalves, Rebecca T. Hahn, Martin G. Keane, Giovanni La Canna, Mark J. Monaghan, Petros Nihoyannopoulos, Frank E. Silvestry, Jean-Louis Vanoverschelde, Linda D. Gillam
American Society of Echocardiography Clinical Recommendations for Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging of Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Endorsed by the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, and Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
May 2011 (Vol. 24 | No. 5 | Pages 473-498)
Sherif F. Nagueh, S. Michelle Bierig, Matthew J. Budoff, Milind Desai, Vasken Dilsizian, Benjamin Eidem, Steven A. Goldstein, Judy Hung, Martin S. Maron, Steve R. Ommen, Anna Woo

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Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography – official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography – brings physicians and sonographers the very latest clinical, scientific, legal, and economic information regarding the use of cardiac ultrasound. The Journal's original, peer-reviewed articles cover conventional procedures as well as newer clinical techniques, such as transesophageal echocardiography, intraoperative echocardiography, and intravascular ultrasound.

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