New Issue Alert

5 March 2021

Dear Reader,

We are pleased to deliver your requested table of contents alert for Journal of Echocardiography. Volume 19, Issue 1 is now available online.

In this issue

Review Article

Practical guidance for echocardiography for cancer therapeutics-related cardiac dysfunction

Tetsuari Onishi, Yuko Fukuda, Sakiko Miyazaki, Hirotsugu Yamada, Hidekazu Tanaka, Jiro Sakamoto, Masao Daimon, Chisato Izumi, Akiko Nonaka, Satoshi Nakatani, Makoto Akaishi

Review Article

Steps to use artificial intelligence in echocardiography

Kenya Kusunose

Review Article

Transesophageal echocardiography in patients with cardiac arrest: from high-quality chest compression to effective resuscitation

Emanuele Catena, Riccardo Colombo, Alessandra Volontè, Beatrice Borghi, Paola Bergomi, Davide Ottolina, Tommaso Fossali, Elisa Ballone, Roberto Rech, Antonio Castelli, Donato Mele

Original Investigation

Impaired global longitudinal strain in elderly patients with preserved ejection fraction is associated with raised post-exercise left ventricular filling pressure

Tsutomu Takagi

Original Investigation

Three cases of late-onset anthracycline-related cardiomyopathy due to chemotherapies for hematological malignancy

Noriaki Kawano, Sayaka Kawano, Shuro Yoshida, Takuro Kuriyama, Taro Tochigi, Takashi Nakaike, Tomonori Shimokawa, Kiyoshi Yamashita, Hidenobu Ochiai, Kazuya Shimoda, Koichi Mashiba, Ikuo Kikuchi

Case image in cardiovascular ultrasound

Clinical significance of end-diastolic opening of pulmonary valve in a case complicating left ventricular systolic dysfunction

Hisao Nishino, Hiroyuki Iwano, Sanae Kaga, Mutsumi Nishida, Koji Akizawa, Takanori Teshima, Toshihisa Anzai

Case image in cardiovascular ultrasound

Hepatopulmonary syndrome presenting as unexplained dyspnea after ventricular septal defect closure

Shigeyoshi Miura, Michito Fukushiro, Kazuto Yamaguchi, Akihiro Endo, Kazuaki Tanabe

Case image in cardiovascular ultrasound

Usefulness of paravertebral approach for evaluation of descending thoracic aorta aneurysm

Tasuku Sato, Takeshi Arita

Case image in cardiovascular ultrasound

Isolated abdominal aortic tortuosity diagnosed by fetal echocardiography

Hirotaka Ishido, Kazunori Baba, Saki Maeda, Hiromi Doi, Yoichi Iwamoto, Hideaki Senzaki, Satoshi Masutani

Case image in cardiovascular ultrasound

Three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiographic imaging of an unusual congenital left ventricular diverticulum

Keisuke Kawai, Hiroshi Watanabe, Minoru Hasokawa, Masakazu Nanahoshi, Hiroshi Yamabe, Seiichi Kobayashi

Letter to the Editor

Gender and positional disparities between echocardiologists and operators in MitraClip heart teams in Japan

Akihisa Kataoka

Letter to the Editor

McConnell's sign assessed by point-of-care cardiac ultrasound associated with in-hospital mortality of COVID-19 patients with respiratory failure

Shunichi Doi, Masaki Izumo, Noriko Shiokawa, Kanako Teramoto, Yuki Ishibashi, Takumi Higuma, Shigeki Fujitani, Yoshihiro J. Akashi