Leaf Through A New October JASE Issue

The October issue of JASE is now online and features a new study titled, “Lung Ultrasound Density Score Index Performed With Cardiopulmonary Exercise Echocardiography Testing Is Associated With Impaired Exercise Capacity.” Lead author Charles Luoma, MS, ACS, RDCS, FASE, remarks, “Pressures we estimate every day in echocardiography can identify the reason for patients’ shortness of breath. Anytime atrial pressure is elevated, ask yourself, is this enough to alter lung density?

Then, calculate a LUDSI score!”

The remaining original investigations discuss exercise echocardiography for detection of HFpEF, carotid ultrasound, and congenital heart disease. A preclinical investigation explores noninvasive pressure-volume analysis via 3D echo to evaluate left ventricular function. This issue also supplies an imaging strategies paper on leaflet modification during transcatheter aortic valve-in-valve replacement. Four brief research communications are followed by correspondence on the right ventricular eccentricity index.

In this month’s President’s Message, Dr. Wiener details the history of ASE’s intersociety partnerships and many plans for future collaborative efforts run by ASE’s Intersocietal Collaboration Leadership Group.

Tune into our Author Spotlight page for interviews between JASE Editor-in-Chief Patricia Pellikka, MD, FASE, and authors of recently published papers. July’s interview features Sherif F. Nagueh, MD, FASE, discussing ASE’s newest guideline, “Recommendations for the Evaluation of Left Ventricular Diastolic Function by Echocardiography and for Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction Diagnosis: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography.”

Please see the October ASE Education Calendar for a listing of educational opportunities far and wide.