Category: Echocardiography

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Echo Quiz – Discussion Left panel shows the two cusps of aortic valve in open position in parasternal short axis view of echocardiography (blue arrows). Right panel shows

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Colour Doppler Echo – Quiz – Discussion RV: Right ventricle, LV: Left ventricle, IVS: Interventricular septum, PML: Posterior mitral leaflet, AML: Anterior mitral leaflet, AoV: Aortic valve, Ao:

Colour Doppler Echo – Quiz What are the salient finding in this Colour Doppler Echo?

This parasternal short axis echocardiogram is a cross section of the left ventricle at the mitral valve level. Both anterior mitral leaflet (AML) and posterior mitral leaflet (PML)

Advantages of continuity equation for quantification of aortic stenosis Not affected by aortic regurgitation Can be used in the presence of left ventricular dysfunction, when gradient can be

Echo quiz Discussion IVS (interventricular septum) is hypertrophied and bulges into the left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT), narrowing it. Gradient across the LVOT is increased to 26 mm

Mitral valve area by planimetry on echocardiogram Mitral valve area by planimetry on echocardiogram is usually obtained from the parasternal short axis view. It can also be obtained

LVOT gradient in HOCM – Doppler echocardiogram Left ventricular outflow tract gradient (LVOT) in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) is usually  measured from the apical five chamber view (apical