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Persistent Reduction in Left Ventricular Strain Using Two-Dimensional Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography after Balloon Valvuloplasty in Children with Congenital Valvular Aortic Stenosis
May 2012(Vol. 25 | No. 5 | Pages 473-485)
Karen A. Marcus, Chris L. de Korte, Ton Feuth, Johan M. Thijssen, Anton M. van Oort, Ronald B. Tanke, Livia Kapusta

Left Ventricular Systolic Dyssynchrony in Pediatric and Adolescent Patients with Congestive Heart Failure
May 2012(Vol. 25 | No. 5 | Pages 486-493)
Srinath T. Gowda, Ali Ahmad, Adel Younoszai, Wei Du, Harinder R. Singh, Michael D. Pettersen, Richard A. Grimm, Gerard J. Boyle

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May 2012(Vol. 25 | No. 5 | Pages 493)
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Changes in Left Ventricular Longitudinal Strain with Anthracycline Chemotherapy in Adolescents Precede Subsequent Decreased Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction
14 May 2012
Joseph T. Poterucha, Shelby Kutty, Rebecca K. Lindquist, Ling Li, Benjamin W. Eidem
Background: Pediatric cancer survivors who have been exposed to anthracycline (ANT) chemotherapy are an ever increasing population at risk for premature cardiac disease. Studies have shown that ANT is...
CaRES (Contrast Echocardiography Registry for Safety Surveillance): A Prospective Multicenter Study to Evaluate the Safety of the Ultrasound Contrast Agent Definity in Clinical Practice
04 May 2012
Robert J. Weiss, Masood Ahmad, Flordeliza Villanueva, Stephen Schmitz, Gajanan Bhat, Mark G. Hibberd, Michael L. Main, CaRES Investigators
Background: Definity (perflutren lipid microsphere) is an ultrasound contrast agent approved for use in patients with suboptimal echocardiograms to opacify the left ventricular chamber and to improve ...
Application of 2011 American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Society of Echocardiography Appropriateness Use Criteria in Hospitalized Patients Referred for Transthoracic Echocardiography in a Community Setting
04 May 2012
Piercarlo Ballo, Fabrizio Bandini, Irene Capecchi, Leandro Chiodi, Giuseppe Ferro, Alberto Fortini, Gabriele Giuliani, Giancarlo Landini, Raffaele Laureano, Massimo Milli, Gabriele Nenci, Francesco Pizzarelli, Giovanni Maria Santoro, Pasquale Vannelli, Carlo Cappelletti, Alfredo Zuppiroli
Background: A recent American College of Cardiology Foundation and American Society of Echocardiography document updated previous appropriate use criteria (AUC) for echocardiography. The aim of this s...
Abnormal Cardiac Strain in Children and Young Adults with HIV Acquired in Early Life
30 April 2012
Amy Sims, Lowell Frank, Russell Cross, Sarah Clauss, David Dimock, Julia Purdy, Irene Mikhail, Rohan Hazra, Colleen Hadigan, Craig Sable
Background: Traditional measures of cardiac function are now often normal in adolescents and young adults treated with antiretroviral therapy for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. There is...
Accuracy and Interobserver Concordance of Echocardiographic Assessment of Right Ventricular Size and Systolic Function: A Quality Control Exercise
30 April 2012
Lee Fong Ling, Nancy A. Obuchowski, Leonardo Rodriguez, Zoran Popovic, Deborah Kwon, Thomas H. Marwick
Background: Accurate assessment of right ventricular (RV) size (RVS) and RV systolic function (RVSF) is vital in the management of various conditions, but their assessment is challenging using echocar...

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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
Three-Dimensional Echocardiography in Paravalvular Aortic Regurgitation Assessment after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation
January 2012 (Vol. 25 | No. 1 | Pages 47-55)
Alexandra Gonçalves, Carlos Almeria, Pedro Marcos-Alberca, Gisela Feltes, Rosana Hernández-Antolín, Enrique Rodríguez, José C. Silva Cardoso, Carlos Macaya, José Luis Zamorano
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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Prevalence and Mechanism of Tricuspid Regurgitation following Implantation of Endocardial Leads for Pacemaker or Cardioverter-Defibrillator
March 2012 (Vol. 25 | No. 3 | Pages 245-252)
Maha A. Al-Mohaissen, Kwan Leung Chan
Automated Quantification of Mitral Inflow and Aortic Outflow Stroke Volumes by Three-Dimensional Real-Time Volume Color-Flow Doppler Transthoracic Echocardiography: Comparison with Pulsed-Wave Doppler and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging
January 2012 (Vol. 25 | No. 1 | Pages 56-65)
Paaladinesh Thavendiranathan, Shizhen Liu, Saurabh Datta, Michael Walls, Adrien Nitinunu, Thomas Van Houten, Nicholas A. Tomson, Laura Vidmar, Bogdan Georgescu, Yang Wang, Seshadri Srinivasan, Nathalie De Michelis, Subha V. Raman, Thomas Ryan, Mani A. Vannan

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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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