Dear Colleagues,
Echocardiography has made significant progress over the last 2 decades so much so it has become an integral test as well as a cardiac consultative tool in of itself. Some aspects of cardiology remain challenging and despite guidelines and updates remain difficult to diagnose and treat. The purpose of this special issue dedicated to echocardiography is to provide clinical reviews on common conditions that incorporate clinical literature and recent advances on these topics and summarize it for the busy clinician who can apply these to improve their daily practice. Multiple images and bullet points in each article support easy readability. The color images and the videos in the reviews allow better understanding.
The reviews should be 5000 words or more with an exhaustive literature review (> 75 refs or more). But these values are flexible.
Dr. Tasneem Z. Naqvi
Guest Editor
Manuscripts should be submitted via our online editorial system at https://imr.propub.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to start your submission. Manuscripts can be submitted now or up until the deadline. All papers will go through peer-review process. Accepted papers will be published in the journal (as soon as accepted) and meanwhile listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, reviews as well as short communications are preferred. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office to announce on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts will be thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. Please visit the Instruction for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) in this open access journal is 2200 USD. Submitted manuscripts should be well formatted in good English.
Contrast echocardiography in current cardiology practice
Mihai Strachinaru
How and when to use lung ultrasound in patients with heart failure?
Nicolas Girerd
Degenerative mitral stenosis – the next frontier in valvular heart disease
Afsin Oktay, Yvonne E. GIlliland and Salima Qamruddin
Strain imaging in routine echo practice
YeeWeng Wong, Hema Narayanasamy and Deepa Mandale
Why is this valve leaking?
Tasneem Z. Naqvi and Hong Lee
Echocardiography in cardiac assist devices
Senthil Anand, Timothy Barry, Reza Arsanjani and Lisa Lemond
Echocardiography in Appendage Occlusion
Reza Arsanjani and Interventional Fellow
How do I assess if this valve prosthesis is functioning normally?
Hasan Ashraf and William Freeman
Echocardiography in Pregnancy with Congenital heart disease
David Majdalani and Francois Marcotte