Category: Cardiology

M-Mode echocardiography and Anatomical M-Mode M-Mode echocardiography (Time-motion mode) was one of the earliest tools of the echocardiographer. M-Mode gives an ice-pick view of the heart. The vertical

Tricuspid Regurgitation (TR) Tricuspid regurgitation can be either low pressure TR or high pressure TR depending on the right ventricular systolic pressure. High pressure TR occurs when the

Mitral Flow Doppler: Mitral flow is assessed by placing the Doppler cursor just distal to the mitral valve in apical four chamber view.

“Stent Creep” seen in Hancock bioprosthesis is due to inward bending of the stent struts.

A new method for peripheral intra arterial thrombolysis is using a porous balloon with low pressure.

Mahaim fibre tachycardia: Mahaim fibres do not conduct retrogradely. So tachycardia is always with wide QRS complexes, LBBB pattern.

Pulmonary edema after device closure of ASD Device closure of atrial septal defect (ASD) is almost replacing surgical ASD closure in all cases with suitable morphology. Percutaneous ASD

Truncus arteriosus is a CCHD in which one single great vessel with a single semilunar valve gives rise to the aorta, PA and the coronary arteries.

Third mogul sign is the prominent left atrial appendage visible on the left cardiac border below the pulmonary artery shadow on chest X-ray or a similar shadow

Double atrial shadow and prominent upper lobe vessels X-ray chest PA view showing prominent double atrial shadow (double atrial contour, shadow in shadow, double density [1]) to the right