It’s Grand Final weekend…

which for those of you outside of Australia (and in fact Victoria) means we southerners get a public holiday for the last game of the Australian Football League final. It’s always quite the buzz here in Melbourne – even if there is no Victorian based team playing.

Before we hand ball to the weekend, here’s our pick of the top snippets from the Weekly Wrap:

• Artificial Intelligence–Based Echocardiographic Assessment of Diastolic Dysfunction: A Systematic Review (Echocardiography, 23 September)
• Proficiency in lung ultrasound and perceived barriers to adoption among emergency physicians after a short pneumonia training programme: a multicentre observational study in Swiss emergency department (BMJ Open, 22 September)

Checking out.

Keep your probes clean and the gel warm.

Mike and Suean

 

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25 September

Journal of Clinical Medicine

Contrasting Echocardiographic Trajectories with and Without Tafamidis in Wild-Type Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy: A Real-World Observational Study with Two-Dimensional Speckle-Tracking Analysis

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If you know the value of protected learning time, secure your place early.

P.S. – don’t forget – if something doesn’t quite fit your learning objectives or availability we can design and deliver a program that meets your needs. Don’t tell everyone though – availability is limited.

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24 September

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— Zedu Ultrasound Training (@zedunow.bsky.social) 24 September 2026 at 18:22

Pediatric Radiology

Multimodality imaging of cerebrospinal fluid shunts: system evaluation and complications

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Detection of Osteoporotic Changes in Rat Femoral Bone Using the Acoustically Stimulated Electromagnetic (ASEM) Method

23 September

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Multimodal Ultrasound for Evaluating the Triceps Surae in Patients With Intramuscular Venous Dilatation and Intramuscular Venous Thrombosis of the Lower Extremity

Echocardiography

Artificial Intelligence–Based Echocardiographic Assessment of Diastolic Dysfunction: A Systematic Review

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22 September

BMJ Open

Proficiency in lung ultrasound and perceived barriers to adoption among emergency physicians after a short pneumonia training programme: a multicentre observational study in Swiss emergency department

Life

Effects of Ultrasound-Guided Erector Spinae Plane Block on Early Postoperative Inflammatory and Metabolic Parameters in Patients Undergoing Breast Cancer Surgery

Annals of Faily Medicine

AI-Enhanced Super-Resolution Handheld Ultrasound for Carotid Plaque Detection in Community Screening

21 September

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— Dr Amit Pawa💉🎙️ (@amit_pawa) September 20, 2026

BMJ Open

Prospective accuracy study on an artificial intelligence-based ultrasound system for gestational age estimation among pregnant women in Ghana, Kenya and South Africa: protocol

Echocardiography

Cardiac Structure and Function and Pulmonary Congestion Across New York Heart Association Classes in Patients With Acute Heart Failure

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Assessment of Intracranial Hypertension With Noninvasive Subharmonic-Aided Pressure Estimation: A First-in-Humans Trial

UC Irvine

Prehospital Ultrasound to Identify Endotracheal Tube Dislodgment in an Infant: A Case Report

20 September

ISUOG

Imaging in gynecological disease (32): clinical and ultrasound characteristics of early abdominal ectopic pregnancy

ISUOG

Getting rid of the transthalamic plane in fetal screening ultrasound: easier said than done

ISUOG

Prenatal findings and postnatal outcomes in cases of closed spinal dysraphism: 10-year two-center cohort study

19 September

Applied Sciences

An Orientation- and Paired-Edge-Aware Modified Frangi Filter for Semi-Automated Crural Fascia Segmentation in Ultrasound Images of Patients with Stroke

Applied Sciences

Fundamental Physical Principles and History of a Vertical Artefact in Chest Ultrasound: The Current “B Lines”—A Comprehensive Narrative Review for Clinicians

ISUOG

Incidence of pre-eclampsia in triplet pregnancies with and without embryo reduction

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

The Predictive Accuracy of Prenatal Ultrasound for Macrosomia—A Retrospective Cohort Study

PLOSOne

Relative and absolute reliability of medial knee joint space width measurement using ultrasound imaging during valgus stress testing

Life

Ultrasound Assessment of Internal Jugular Vein Distensibility as a Marker of Residual Congestion in Acute Decompensated Heart Failure

Life

Baseline-Referenced Longitudinal Point-of-Care Ultrasound for Fluid Management After Kidney Transplantation: A Retrospective Comparison with Central Venous Pressure-Guided Care

Sonography

Dynamic Sonographic Assessment of Vascular Thoracic Outlet Syndrome: A Case Report