Not Your Standard September JASE

The September issue of JASE is now online and features a new guideline titled, “Guidelines for the Standardization of Adult Echocardiography Reporting: Recommendations From the American Society of Echocardiography.” Authors Cynthia Taub, MBA, MD, FASE, and Raymond Stainback, MD, FASE, remark, “The prior reporting standards guideline (2002) was useful for bringing the field into the digital information age, but lacked details and clarity required for current lab operations. We have incorporated many new topics for improved communications including proper abbreviation usage, a dictionary of both descriptive terms and echocardiographic measurements with their degree of precision. Standardization provides a common framework that ensures consistency, efficiency, collaboration, and quality. This new guideline views the echocardiographer as an active participant in the translation of echocardiographic findings into accurate timely clinical decision-making. Guidance is provided to improve report understanding not only by cardiologists and echocardiographers, but by all referring care providers, the patients themselves, and by artificial intelligence systems.” 

Readers can also look forward to a state-of-the-art review on the echocardiographic evaluation of carcinoid heart disease. This issue’s original investigations discuss novel indices of left ventricular diastolic function, echocardiographic tissue characterization with artificial intelligence, echocardiographic predictors of ventricular arrhythmia recurrence after ablation, LV longitudinal strain pattern in constriction, and congenital heart disease. Three editorial comments accompany those reports, which are followed by four brief research communications. Additionally, colleagues pay tribute to ASE Past President Roberto M. Lang, MD, FASE, detailing his many contributions to ASE and the field of echocardiography through the years. Rounding out this issue is a letter to the editor exploring body surface area as an anthropometric scaling variable for detecting differences in right atrial and RV structural parameters in adults born term versus preterm. 

In this month’s President’s Message, JASE Editor-in-Chief and ASE Past President Patricia A. Pellikka, MD, FASE, shares updates on JASE’s exciting move to digital-only in 2026 as well as her plans to further expand the journal’s impact. 

This issue also features published abstracts of original science from ASE’s 2025 Scientific Sessions, which you can view here. 

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 September ASE Education Calendar for a listing of educational opportunities far and wide.