ALLMedicine™ Cardiovascular Imaging Center

Aug 8th, 2020 - Central activation in response to emotion and cognitive stress induces perturbations in the heart and the peripheral vasculature that differ in physiology and clinical manifestations when compared with exercise-induced changes. While our conventio...

Jul 29th, 2020 - Echocardiography is an indispensable tool in diagnostic cardiology and is fundamental to clinical care. Significant advances in cardiovascular imaging technology paralleled by rapid growth in electronic medical records, miniaturized devices, real-...

Jul 29th, 2020 - The World Alliance Societies of Echocardiography (WASE) study was conducted to describe echocardiographic normal values in adults and to compare races and nationalities using a uniform acquisition and measurement protocol. This report focuses on l...

Jul 19th, 2020 - Right ventricular (RV) function is a powerful independent predictor of adverse heart failure outcomes. The aim of this study was to compare the predictive value of main RV systolic imaging parameters for outcome. Seventy-nine patients underwent co...

Jul 19th, 2020 - Multimodality imaging plays a pivotal role in the evaluation and management of infective endocarditis (IE)-a condition with high morbidity and mortality. The diagnosis of IE is primarily based on the modified Duke criteria with echocardiography as...

May 3rd, 2020 - Recommendations on the Use of Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging in Young Adult Competitive Athletes: A Report from the American Society of Echocardiography in Collaboration with the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography and the Society ...

Jan 31st, 2019 - Since its introduction nearly four decades ago, transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) has witnessed a remarkable evolution. The important strides made in improving TEE technology – including development of multiplane phased array transducers, mat...

Dec 31st, 2018 - Since the publication of the first expert consensus document on computed tomography imaging before transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)/transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) by the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (S.

Aug 30th, 2018 - The stimulus to create this document was the recognition that ionizing radiation-guided cardiovascular procedures are being performed with increasing frequency, leading to greater patient radiation exposure and, potentially, to greater exposure to...

Aug 30th, 2018 - The stimulus to create this document was the recognition that ionizing radiation-guided cardiovascular procedures are being performed with increasing frequency, leading to greater patient radiation exposure and, potentially, to greater exposure fo...

Aug 8th, 2020 - Central activation in response to emotion and cognitive stress induces perturbations in the heart and the peripheral vasculature that differ in physiology and clinical manifestations when compared with exercise-induced changes. While our conventio...

Jul 29th, 2020 - Echocardiography is an indispensable tool in diagnostic cardiology and is fundamental to clinical care. Significant advances in cardiovascular imaging technology paralleled by rapid growth in electronic medical records, miniaturized devices, real-...

Jul 29th, 2020 - The World Alliance Societies of Echocardiography (WASE) study was conducted to describe echocardiographic normal values in adults and to compare races and nationalities using a uniform acquisition and measurement protocol. This report focuses on l...

Jul 19th, 2020 - Right ventricular (RV) function is a powerful independent predictor of adverse heart failure outcomes. The aim of this study was to compare the predictive value of main RV systolic imaging parameters for outcome. Seventy-nine patients underwent co...

Jul 19th, 2020 - Multimodality imaging plays a pivotal role in the evaluation and management of infective endocarditis (IE)-a condition with high morbidity and mortality. The diagnosis of IE is primarily based on the modified Duke criteria with echocardiography as...

Jun 3rd, 2019 - Automating quantification in echocardiography could save you lab time and money while speeding up reporting and boosting accuracy and reproducibility of the measurements, and a state-of-the-art review explained how to get there. Writing in JACC: C...

Apr 21st, 2019 - Medicare reimbursement for ambulatory blood pressure monitoring is poised to expand from only suspected white coat hypertension to also include suspected masked hypertension. The proposed national coverage determination also lowers the threshold t...

Mar 13th, 2019 - Cardiac MRI provided an effective, non-invasive means of monitoring for acute rejection episodes after heart transplantation in a prospective study. A model combining age and the MRI parameters of global T2 and global extracellular volume fraction...

Jan 31st, 2019 - Since its introduction nearly four decades ago, transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) has witnessed a remarkable evolution. The important strides made in improving TEE technology – including development of multiplane phased array transducers, mat...

May 2nd, 2018 - Best practices for using ionizing radiation in cardiovascular imaging and tips to minimize radiation exposure to both patients and clinical personnel were released by the American College of Cardiology in a new expert consensus document. Besides u...