Septal bounce and septal shudder in constrictive pericarditis Septal bounce Septal bounce is also called respirophasic ventricular septal shift [1, 2]. It is an early diastolic posterior motion
RWMA – Echo The term regional wall motion abnormality or RWMA can be used in any imaging which shows movements of the myocardial segments like echocardiography, cine cardiac
Atrial septal defect This video covers certain features of atrial septal defect including X-ray chest, ECG, echocardiogram and finally device closure of ASD. Both secundum and primum ASDs
Echocardiograms in a few congenital heart diseases In this series, we have echocardiograms of a few congenital heart diseases. The first one shows left ventricle to right atrium
Tetralogy of Fallot – Pre and Post Repair Echocardiogram Tetralogy of Fallot is the commonest cyanotic congenital heart disease in the adult. Large subaortic ventricular septal defect with
Tei index – Myocardial performance index Tei index – myocardial performance index (MPI) is the ratio of the time spent in isovolumetric activity divided by the time spent
Dumb-bell sign in lipomatous hypertrophy of the atrial septum Dumb-bell sign in lipomatous hypertrophy of the atrial septum is described on echocardiography. Thickening of the interatrial septum spares
Tissue Doppler derived atrial conduction time: PA-TDI Total atrial conduction time (TACT) denotes the total period required for atrial activation. Conventionally it is measured using signal averaged electrocardiogram
Echo Quiz – Discussion RA: Right atrium; LA: Left atrium; RV: Right ventricle; LV: Left ventricle; AML: Anterior mitral leaflet; PML: Posterior mitral leaflet This echocardiogram in apical
