Researchers think this represents a potential breakthrough for low- and middle-income countries where access to high-quality imaging evaluations is still limited. 

When patients with pacemakers die, what happens to the device? Typically, it ends up being discarded and forgotten—they were designed to be single-use devices, after all—but that does not have to be the case.

Friends, colleagues and professional societies have all shared loving tributes to the veteran electrophysiologist, who died at the age of 69. 

Cardiologist Roberto Canessa, MD, was just 19 when the plane he was on—Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571—crashed in the Andes in 1972. He and another survivor trekked in the cold for 38 miles to find help, leading to the group's rescue. 

“The cardiovascular community has lost an inspiring leader and a man whose warmth and generosity profoundly touched all those who knew him," the European Society of Cardiology said in a statement. 

Hospitals should be making every effort to help sonographers deliver better, more accurate echocardiograms and improve the diagnosis of severe aortic stenosis. If you take care of your sonographers, your sonographers will take care of you. 

Adolph M. Hutter, MD, spent more than 50 years with Massachusetts General Hospital and worked with multiple professional sports teams. In addition, he served as president of the American College of Cardiology in 1992-1993. 

The publication's current editor-in-chief is Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD. Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, will begin his five-year term in 2024.