The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) released a new guideline document that outlines uniform training standards for interventional sonographers guiding structural heart procedures.

That’s according to an award-winning scientific online poster presented this week during the American Roentgen Ray Society’s annual meeting being held in Honolulu, Hawaii.

The hope is that the technique could lead to earlier detection of diseases by simultaneously identifying structural and functional abnormalities that standard ultrasound imaging methods alone cannot.

Experts recently questioned the necessity of scanning the axilla region during diagnostic breast ultrasound, as new data indicate that it is minimally beneficial for cancer detection. 

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An independent news media company based in India recently detailed the stories of 12 different women who, despite their documented clinical need, were unable to obtain a transvaginal ultrasound because they were unmarried at the time.

“Many courses exist for teaching US scanning to non-radiologists, but fewer courses are available to radiologists who need to strengthen their core skills,” experts recently wrote in Academic Radiology.