#echofirst #CardioTwitter #CHD Intraop TEE (pre & post) in a young adult with a complex segmental anomaly (ccTGA + situs inversus), undergoing first time cardiac surgery (mechanical double valve replacement). Which are the replaced valves ?

#echofirst #CardioTwitter 🔻2 patients with the same disease (same coronary vessel) 🔻Unfortunately 2 different potentially lethal complications ❤️ But fortunately we have surgeons who know how to deal with it Postop both patients are doing well 👏❤️🙏

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Male patient, 42 yo. Post op after aortic disection type A.

*** LV Recognizing Foreshortening in Apical Four-Chamber View: 1.Apex Shape: Look for a rounded appearance of the apex, which suggests foreshortening. The apex should ideally be pointed. Shared from telegram group

#echofirst #CardioTwitter Intraop preprocedural TEE in an octogenarian patient with chronic PE and post-PE-damaged right lung, undergoing right-sided pneumectomy. Your thoughts ?

Over 50% of patients under 60 in California are getting TAVR. This is absurd! Huge shoutout to Jo Chikwe and team for exposing the alarming truth: TAVR has a 250% higher risk of death in 5 years compared to SAVR. annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-…

#TransplantThursday: See the surgical technique for heart transplant for a 68-year-old male patient with left superior vena cava in #JTCVS Techniques. Surgeons at Mayo Clinic Cardiac Surgery found the technique to be safe, simple, and easily reproducible: doi.org/10.1016/j.xjtc…

We've released a State-of-the-Art Review, "Echocardiographic Evaluation Before and After Tricuspid Valve Interventions!" Read our JASE article: bit.ly/3YVJWE7

Elephants rarely get cancer. Why? Mrinal Patnaik explained the reasons at the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group meeting today. They have 40 copies of the p53 tumor suppressor gene. (Humans have 2 copies)

What are the key principle of awake tracheal intubation? • oxygenation • topical anaesthesia of the airway • procedural performance • sedation Is one of these principles more important than the others? Kariem Sally El-Ghazali Imran Ahmad Cornish medic

What are the hemodynamic consequences of “total paracentesis”? Cardiac output increases but then there are diminishing returns or decreases depending on the patient 1. Symptom relief (and abdominal pressure normalization occurs early) 2. Heroes are not made in the 21st litre

A floating mass in the heart: a rare case of renal carcinoma with intracardiac extension EHJCVI Editor-in-Chief Zhitong Ge et al. shorturl.at/Qyj39 EACVI President EHJ-IMP Editor-in-Chief Julia Grapsa MD, PhD Denisa Muraru Hooman Bakhshi Edoardo Zancanaro MD Ivan Stankovic Julián Vega Adauy Eirini Beneki

#echofirst #CardioTwitter RV moderator band (MB) aka trabecula septomarginlis aka Leonardo Bündel (German Wikipedia) 👀 into your own 🫀 ⬜️ Sagittal plane 🟩 Frontal (coronal) plane If you want to find out more about the MB 👉 Dr. José Ángel Cabrera doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc…

#echofirst #CardioTwitter Repair-oriented BAV classification according to commissural orientation doi.org/10.1148/ryct.2…

Hepatic vein waveform alterations in various scenarios. #POCUS #VExUS #FOAMed #Nephpearls Courtesy: Comprehensive Textbook of Echocardiography, Navin C Nanda

74/F p/w fatigue and in mild heart failure and early shock. ECG showed STE in V1-4. What is this rare #echofirst finding? bit.ly/3UOz0Ww #EHJCaseReports Philipp Sommer Tee Joo YEO Aaysha Cader Boldizsar Kovacs Erik Rafflenbeul A.Nazmi Calik Obayda Azizy Sara Moscatelli EHJCaseReports Editor-in-Chief

How you see a person from 80 light years away. By Individual_Book9133

I make this point for every single #HCM talk. We wrote about this at American College of Cardiology.org In patients with HCM , MR and LVOT Signal on #Echofirst can be quite confusing. In addition to double checking the SBP with MR jet to confirm LVOT gradient/following tricks can be useful

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