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Advance your adult echocardiography expertise with weekly case breakdowns aligned with current guidelines to improve your scanning and reporting.
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The Wall in the Way (opens the original)
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A man in his 40s walks in tired and short of breath, with a resting LVOT gradient of 100 mmHg.Ask him to bear down, and it climbs to 140.His mitral valve is part of the problem, but there’s nothing wrong with it.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" h
Cases, boards, or CME: what's inside The Echo Journal (opens the original)
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Hi there,No case today. Just a clear look at everything The Echo Journal offers, so you can decide what fits where you are right now.CASE BREAKDOWNS, TWICE A WEEKTwice a week we break down real adult echocardiography cases, grounded in current guidelines. Each one is built to sharpen three things: how you scan, how you interpret, and how you report.You’re in good company. 9,796 readers across 160 countries read along, from cardiac sonographers and cardiologists to physiologists and anyone else w
How to Coach Transducer Movements Clearly (opens the original)
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"We don't know the difference between rock and tilt!"That’s what a recent cohort of students told us, and they’re not alone. Transducer terms get used loosely, even by experienced sonographers, and that makes it hard to teach a new scanner, coach a fellow, or talk a critical care team through a new view. So this week, we’re getting everyone on the same page: what each movement actually is, and how to explain it clearly.First things first. The transducer’s job is to convert electrical energy into
Dilated Cardiomyopathy: Beyond the Ejection Fraction (opens the original)
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Dilated cardiomyopathy effects roughly 1 in 2,700 people, based on the population data most clinicians still cite from Olmsted County, Minnesota, in the 1980s (Codd et al, 1984). That estimate is decades old, and newer work suggests it undercounts the real burden. A 2023 analysis of nearly 57 million U.S. patient records put current DCM prevalence closer to 118 per 100,000, with genetic testing documented in less than half a percent of those cases (Ababio et al, 2023).DCM remains the leading non
The 2025 Diastology Guidelines Just Quietly Retired One of Your Go-To Measurements (opens the original)
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Sonographers and physicians dread grading diastology more than anything else on standard transthoracic echocardiography. We can feel your reaction through the screen already.Here’s what changed nobody warned you about: the algorithm you learned it on is nine years old, and this July 2025, it quietly stopped being current.The 2025 ASE/EACVI update didn’t make diastolic function simpler to understand physiologically. It made the decision-making cleaner, but only for readers willing to work through
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