According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, musculoskeletal injuries are the leading cause of lost workday injury and illness in the healthcare industry. These data are “echoed” in the EU, Asia, and elsewhere. Given that sonographers are the lifeblood of cardiovascular ultrasound, and the exponentially increasing presence of echocardiographers and sonographers in the interventional […]

JASE remains reliant on an exceptional team that reviews and handles the papers. In 2024, this wonderful team has included our deputy editor, Dr. Peter Rahko, and associate editors Drs. Nina Ajmone Marsan, Gerard Aurigemma, Luigi Badano, Brian Hoit, Jonathan Lindner, Anita Moon-Grady, Sherif Nagueh, Michele Nanna, Rajesh Punn, Jeremy Thaden, and Liza Thomas. We also enlist the help of our highly […]

A special thank you to the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) Sonographer Career Ladder Workgroup for their tireless efforts in working on this project.

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 in an established echocardiographic laboratory. For more information about a course, please call the number listed. To list a course in the Continuing Education and […]

Left atrial reservoir strain (LASr) has emerged as a sensitive marker of LA function and elevated filling pressures, even though its role in detecting diastolic dysfunction (DD) and the subsequent risk stratification has remained relatively underexplored. Accordingly, we aimed to investigate the prognostic implications of replacing left atrial volume index (LAVi) with LASr in the 2016 ASE/EACVI […]