Echocardiography is a cornerstone of diagnosis and management of heart disease. Its ability to provide real-time, detailed images of cardiac anatomy and function is essential for guiding both surgical and percutaneous cardiac interventions, the majority of which require the use of general anesthesia. The profound cardiac physiological changes that accompany general anesthesia can affect […]

Undertreatment of severe aortic stenosis (AS) including absence and delays in referral to cardiac specialty care remains common, particularly when patients are followed by non-cardiac specialty providers. Electronic health record (EHR)–based nudges improve adherence to treatment but have not been widely evaluated in valvular heart disease.

Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is one of the most common congenital heart defects (CHD). However, guidelines for imaging surveillance frequency are not well established among young children, particularly those diagnosed during infancy without hemodynamically significant associated congenital lesions.

In healthy subjects, women have smaller cardiac size than men even after indexation for body surface area (BSA), as well as higher left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (EF) and global longitudinal strain (GLS). Despite this, little is known about sex differences in LV remodeling in patients with mitral valve prolapse (MVP) undergoing mitral valve repair (MVr).