It is easy for those of us focused on patient care to feel removed from decisions being made in Washington, until those decisions reach our exam rooms, echo labs, research programs, and patients. Reimbursement policy, research funding, and regulatory rules can sound technical, but they eventually show up in very real ways: a smaller payment, delayed prior authorization, a missing quality measure, […]

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 […]

Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) is an X-linked disorder characterized by progressive muscle weakness and cardiac involvement, with cardiomyopathy being the leading cause of mortality. While cardiac dysfunction in adult BMD patients is well documented, the early cardiac phenotype in pediatric populations remains poorly understood. This prospective cross-sectional study aimed to characterize […]

Right ventricular (RV) dysfunction is a major determinant of outcomes after Tetralogy of Fallot repair (rToF). Although right bundle branch block is present in most patients and electro-mechanical dyssynchrony (EMD) has been associated with RV dysfunction, only a subset of patients ultimately develops RV dysfunction. We hypothesized that septal dysfunction is a key feature associated with the […]