Effects of LV foreshorthening on AFI strain
Effects of LV 4-chamber foreshortening on myocardial AFI longitudinal strain
Apparently normal LV strain with occluded LAD
A case of 3-vessel coronary artery disease and occluded LAD with normal global but abnormal segmental LV longitudinal strain
How to: Quantitative Analysis in a Secondary Mitral Regurgitation
How to Quantify Mitral Regurgitation - A case of secondary (ischemic) moderate regurgitation. Learn how to determine the grade of mitral regurgitation using the quantitative PISA and stroke volume methods.
How to Quantify Early Systolic Mitral Regurgitation
How to Quantify Early Systolic Mitral Regurgitation - The importance of timing. Learn how not to overestimate the grade of mitral regurgitation when duration is less than holo-systolic
What a Difference a Slow Flow Makes?
A brief discussion on the hemodynamics behind the mitral valve E wave in normal subjects and in patients with prolonged LV relaxation.
Transducer Position & LV Geometry
Learn to position the transducer correctly to avoid long axis foreshortening and calculate correctly left ventricular volumes and ejection fraction
A case of Effusive-Constrictive Chronic Pericarditis (and Pericardiectomy)
A clinical case of a young female with effusive-constrictive pericarditis undergoing successful surgical pericardiectomy
How-to: Quantification of Mitral Regurgitation by the Guidelines
How to quantify mitral regurgitation using the the gold standard stroke volume method
Right atrial collapse in cardiac tamponade
A comment to a Twitter post on diagnosing tamponade using right atrial collapse
Surgical closure of LAA during mitral valve surgery
Intra-operative TE diagnosis of LAA thrombus in patient with severe mitral valve stenosis.