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Cardiac Sonography: How AI and Other Innovations Are Changing Ultrasound

Cassling

Interpreting cardiac ultrasounds has become more complex and time-consuming for clinicians: With the shift toward a more quantitative analysis, there are more parameters for clinicians to measure. Heres a look at how AI ultrasound and other tech innovations are helping cardiologists work faster while driving better outcomes for patients.

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Scientist shows focused ultrasound can reach deep into the brain to relieve pain

Science Daily - Heart Disease

Scientists have found soundwaves from low-intensity focused ultrasound aimed at a place deep in the brain called the insula can reduce both the perception of pain and other effects of pain, such as heart rate changes.

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Diagnostic accuracy of artificial intelligence models in detecting congenital heart disease in the second-trimester fetus through prenatal cardiac screening: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

BackgroundCongenital heart disease (CHD) is a major contributor to morbidity and infant mortality and imposes the highest burden on global healthcare costs. Most studies utilized deep learning models using either ultrasound or echocardiographic images.

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New Philips Mini TEE Ultrasound Transducer Helps Improve Cardiac Care for More Patients

DAIC

Cardiovascular ultrasound has played a key role in the evolution of early diagnosis of structural heart disease, led by a technology pioneered by Philips: the ‘transesophageal echocardiography’ (TEE) ultrasound transducer. In structural heart disease, the quality of a 3D TEE image can help save lives.

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Cardiology MCQ: Echo Basics

All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

Speed of ultrasound in body tissues is around: A. 1500 meters per second Speed of ultrasound is almost that in water, though there is some difference between various tissues. Reflections of ultrasound occur at interfaces between tissues and between blood and tissues, due to the difference in velocity. 20,000 meters per second B.

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Lantheus Announces the FDA Approval of DEFINITY as Ultrasound Enhancing Agent for Use in Certain Pediatric Cardiovascular Patients

DAIC

Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA) has approved DEFINITY (Perflutren Lipid Microsphere) as an ultrasound enhancing agent for use in pediatric patients with suboptimal echocardiograms, including those who have undergone heart transplant, or have Kawasaki disease or a congenital cardiovascular anomaly.

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Prognostic impact of lung ultrasound detected B-lines on hospitalised ischaemic heart failure with mildly reduced ejection fraction patients

Open Heart

Objectives Prognostic impact of lung ultrasound-derived B-lines (LUS-BL) in heart failure with mildly reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (HFmrEF) patients remains elusive. We evaluated the correlation between LUS-BL and prognosis in HFmrEF patients.