Recent guidelines have been published providing detailed guidance on specific
echocardiographic diagnostic criteria for measurements of diastolic function, chamber …

Highlights•Good reproducibility, repeatability, and reliability are essential for echo studies.•
Straightforward statistical evaluation can improve echocardiography practice.•A free online …

Echocardiography is one of the most commonly performed noninvasive diagnostic tests in
patients with known or suspected cardiovascular diseases. Echocardiography provides …

Over the past few years, the clinical use of echocardiography has continued to expand.
Echocardiographic techniques are used widely to define normal and abnormal cardiac …

recommendations. A new section on the use of intraoperative transesophageal
echocardiography (TEE) is being added to update the guidelines published by the American …

This document is a revision of the" Guidelines for the Clinical Application of
Echocardiography" published in December 1990. This executive summary and …

It is clearly important that the medical profession plays a significant role in critically
evaluation of the use of diagnostic procedures and therapies in the management or …

A summary of the echocardiographic report often includes statements that:(1) Answer the
question (s) posed by the referring physician,(2) emphasize abnormal findings, and (3) …

Echocardiography has become the primary imaging tool in the diagnosis and assessment of
congenital and acquired heart disease in infants, children, and adolescents. Transthoracic …

Echocardiographic assessment of left ventricular (LV) diastolic function is an integral part of
the routine evaluation of patients presenting with symptoms of dyspnea or heart failure. The …