The 5-minute screening echocardiogram for athletes.

Background: Echocardiography is an accurate way to identify common cardiac abnormalities that lead to sudden death. We report a screening echocardiogram protocol incorporated into the routine athletic medical assessment for all incoming college freshman athletes.

Methods: A limited 2-dimensional echocardiogram was performed on athletes as part of a routine sports physical examination.

Survey of current practices of the specialty of physicians interpreting cardiac and noncardiac findings of coronary computed tomographic angiography.

Computed tomographic angiography, as an imaging modality to evaluate the coronary arteries, has been rapidly expanding since the release of 64-slice machines. Little is known about current practice patterns. This study was conducted to evaluate current practice patterns and views regarding the interpretation of noncardiac findings by distributing a survey to the approximately 800 attendees of the first annual meeting of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography in 2006.