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In situ Transesophageal Echocardiography During Electrical Cardioversion in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation – Safety and Echocardiographic Findings
Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) can reliably detect left atrial (LA) and LA appendage (LAA) thrombus in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) before electrical cardioversion (ECV). However, evaluating cardiac and valve function pre-ECV can be challenging due to the increased and irregular heart rate. Additionally, post-ECV atrial stunning increases the risk of thrombosis. Therefore, post-ECV TEE may allow for useful appendage, ventricular and valve function assessment. However, the safety and usefulness of leaving the TEE probe in situ during ECV for post-ECV cardiac evaluation in clinical practice have not been pr...
Source: Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography - November 27, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Mehrnoush Toufan Tabrizi, Marlene Girardo, Tasneem Z. Naqvi Tags: Clinical Investigations Source Type: research

Ventricular-ventricular Interactions in Critically Ill infants with Ebstein Anomaly or Dysplasia of the Tricuspid Valve: Time to Remember the Forgotten Left Ventricle.
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Source: Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography - November 26, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Yuval Bitterman, Mark K. Friedberg Tags: Editorial Source Type: research

Impact of neonatal intervention on left ventricular performance in ebstein ’s anomaly and tricuspid valve dysplasia
Severe neonatal Ebstein ’s anomaly and tricuspid valve dysplasia (EA/TVD) are associated with high perinatal morbidity and mortality. We have recently demonstrated left ventricular (LV) dysfunction and dyssynchrony to be prevalent in affected newborns and to contribute to poor outcomes. With this, we sought to investigat e the impact of patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) closure, spontaneous or surgical ligation, or right ventricular exclusion/ Starnes on LV performance in neonatal EA/TVD. (Source: Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography)
Source: Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography - November 25, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Yozo Teramachi, Lisa K. Hornberger, Lisa Howley, Mary E. van der Velde, Mohammed Al-Aklabi, Luke G. Eckersley Tags: Clinical Investigations Source Type: research

Body Surface Radiation Exposure in Interventional Echocardiographers During Left Atrial Appendage Closure: Monte Carlo Simulation
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Source: Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography - November 24, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Akihisa Kataoka, Takeshi Takata, Ayaka Yanagawa, Kento Kito, Taiga Katayama, Ken Kozuma, Jun ’ichi Kotoku Tags: Brief Research Communication Source Type: research

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy —Septal Perforator Arteries Doppler Flow Dynamics
Patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) have been shown to exhibit abnormal diastolic vessel flow; however, flow pattern profiles and their possible association with different grades of diastolic dysfunction have not been studied. Color Doppler 2D echocardiography permits visualization of the septal perforator arteries, and pulsed-wave Doppler allows recording of diastolic septal artery flow (SAF). Through routine visualization of the septal perforator arteries and acquisition of SAF, we noticed three patterns of SAF in patients with HCM. (Source: Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography)
Source: Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography - November 24, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Patrycja Galazka, Arshad Jahangir, Jim Kanani, Mahmoud Ali, McKenzie Schweitzer, M. Fuad Jan, Lakshmi Muthukumar, Renuka Jain, A. Jamil Tajik Tags: Clinical Investigations Source Type: research

Prognostic Significance of Elevated Left Ventricular Filling Pressures with Exercise: Insights from a Cohort of 14, 338 patients
Exercise echocardiography can assess for cardiovascular causes of dyspnea other than coronary artery disease. However, the prevalence and prognostic significance of elevated left ventricular (LV) filling pressures with exercise is understudied. (Source: Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography)
Source: Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography - November 22, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Christina L. Luong, Vidhu Anand, Ratnasari Padang, Jae K. Oh, Adelaide M. Arruda-Olson, Jared G. Bird, Cristina Pislaru, Jeremy J. Thaden, Sorin V. Pislaru, Patricia A. Pellikka, Robert B. McCully, Garvan C. Kane Tags: Clinical Investigations Source Type: research

Euclidean and Shape-Based Analysis of the Dynamic Mitral Annulus in Children Using a Novel Open-Source Framework
The dynamic shape of the normal adult mitral annulus has been shown to be important to mitral valve function. However, annular dynamics of the healthy mitral valve in children have yet to be explored. We sought to model and quantify the shape and major modes of variation of pediatric mitral valve annuli at four phases in the cardiac cycle using transthoracic echocardiograms. (Source: Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography)
Source: Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography - November 21, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Silvani Amin, Hannah Dewey, Andras Lasso, Patricia Sabin, Ye Han, Jared Vicory, Beatriz Paniagua, Christian Herz, Hannah Nam, Alana Cianciulli, Maura Flynn, Devin W. Laurence, David Harrild, Gabor Fichtinger, Meryl S. Cohen, Matthew A. Jolley Tags: Clinical Investigations Source Type: research

Variation in Reader-Reported Severity of Paradoxical Low-Flow Low-Gradient Aortic Stenosis
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Source: Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography - November 21, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Nimish N. Shah, Lissa Sugeng, Zhiyuan Zhang, Kangxin Wang, Robert L. McNamara, Vratika Agarwal, David J. Hur, Bernardo Lombo, Lavanya Bellumkonda, Michael Mankbadi, Abdel Rahman Basem Dajani, John K. Forrest, Harlan M. Krumholz, Samuel W. Reinhardt, Eric Tags: Brief Research Communication Source Type: research

Decline in Left Ventricular Early Systolic Function with Worsening Kidney Function in Children with CKD: Insights from the 4C and HOT-KID Studies
Adults with childhood-onset chronic kidney disease (CKD) have increased risk of cardiovascular disease. First-phase ejection fraction (EF1) a novel measure of early systolic function may be a more sensitive marker of left ventricular dysfunction than other markers in children with CKD. (Source: Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography)
Source: Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography - November 20, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Haotian Gu, Karolis Azukaitis, Anke Doyon, Sevcan Erdem, Bruno Ranchin, Jerome Harambat, Francesca Lugani, Andrii Boguslavskyi, Janette Cansick, Eric Finlay, Rodney Gilbert, Larissa Kerecuk, Andrew Lunn, Heather Maxwell, Henry Morgan, Mohan Shenoy, Ruksha Tags: Clinical Investigations Source Type: research

Mental Stress Reduces Left Ventricular Strain: Can It Lead to Misinterpretation of Cancer Therapy –Related Cardiac Dysfunction?
Left ventricular (LV) global longitudinal strain (GLS) in the lower and subnormal range ( (Source: Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography)
Source: Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography - November 17, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Ole J. Sletten, John M. Aalen, Otto A. Smiseth, Faraz H. Khan, Alexander Foss å, Cecilie E. Kiserud, Manuel Villegas-Martinez, Jonny Hisdal, Espen W. Remme, Helge Skulstad Tags: Brief Research Communication Source Type: research

Mental stress reduces left ventricular strain: Can it lead to misinterpretation of cancer therapy-related cardiac dysfunction?
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Source: Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography - November 17, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Ole J. Sletten, John M. Aalen, Otto A. Smiseth, Faraz H. Khan, Alexander Foss å, Cecilie E. Kiserud, Manuel Villegas-Martinez, Jonny Hisdal, Espen W. Remme, Helge Skulstad Tags: Brief Research Communication Source Type: research

Before Aortic Valve Replacement: Think Globally, Look Regionally
For a long time, cardiovascular imaging has aspired to provide rapid, accurate, and noninvasive evaluation of myocardial function. Being readily available, left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) remains the most frequently employed parameter in daily practice. Nevertheless, it has been demonstrated that the analysis of global longitudinal strain (GLS) using speckle-tracking analysis outperforms LVEF in the early detection of subclinical myocardial dysfunction and prediction of major events onset in various pathological situations, including aortic stenosis (AS),1-3 even though these 2 parameters are both dependent on th...
Source: Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography - November 15, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Augustin Coisne, Erwan Donal Tags: Editorial Source Type: research

Can We Trust “Big Data” on Moderate Aortic Stenosis? The Devil Is in the Details!
We read with interest the article by Sen et  al. in the current issue of JASE,1 “Prognostic Signals From Moderate Valve Disease in Big Data: An Artefact of Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine Structured Reporting?,” along with the accompanying editorial, “Echoing Errors: The Problem of Uncurated ‘Big Data’ in Echocardiog raphy.”2 We note the major concern that “big echo data” is beset by bias, resulting in “rubbish in, rubbish out.” This is of paramount importance given that the National Echo Database of Australia (NEDA) has produced potentially paradigm-changing observations around the pro...
Source: Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography - November 14, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: David Playford, Simon Stewart, Geoff Strange Source Type: research

Comparing Costs of Noninvasive Cardiac Diagnostic Tests —a Population-Based Study
Noninvasive cardiac diagnostic tests (NITs) for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease have been estimated to cost>$3 billion annually in the United States alone and have recently undergone scrutiny over concerns of overuse. Consequently, comparing costs of different NIT testing strategies is of urgent importance to health care planning. (Source: Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography)
Source: Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography - November 14, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Idan Roifman, Anna Chu, Peter C. Austin, Mohammed Rashid, Pamela S. Douglas, Harindra C. Wijeysundera Tags: Clinical Investigations Source Type: research

The Role of Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography in Predicting Mortality and Morbidity in Patients With Congenital Heart Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Speckle-tracking echocardiography (STE) is now routinely included in cardiac evaluations, but its role in predicting mortality and morbidity in congenital heart disease (CHD) is not well described. We conducted a systematic review to evaluate the prognostic value of STE in patients with CHD. (Source: Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography)
Source: Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography - November 14, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dan M. Dorobantu, Nurul H. Amir, Curtis A. Wadey, Chetanya Sharma, A. Graham Stuart, Craig A. Williams, Guido E. Pieles Source Type: research