Cardiophile MD

Rheumatic mitral stenosis – echocardiogram in PLAX view
Mitral valve is the most commonly involved valve in rheumatic heart disease. According to Paul Wood, the involvement of the valves in rheumatic heart disease is depending on the hemodynamic load on the valve. The mitral valve faces the maximum load as it withstands the contractile force of [...]

Colour Doppler of mitral flow – diastolic and systolic frames
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Colour Doppler of mitral flow on echocardiography with colour flow mapping (CFM) from the apical four chamber view. The left frame is in diastole when the mitral valve is open and there is a forward flow from the left [...]

Systolic and diastolic frames from apical 4C view on echocardiography
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Systolic and diastolic frames from apical 4C view on echocardiography seen on the same screen.The left image is in diastole as the mitral valve is seen to be open (only anterior mitral leaflet is visible as jutting into [...]

Tissue Doppler Imaging at the level of the mitral annuls, septal side.
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Tissue Doppler Imaging (TDI) measures the velocity of myocardial motion using Doppler principles. While the usual Doppler echocardiography measures the velocity of blood flow using the Doppler signals from the fast moving blood cells, which are of [...]

Aortic regurgitation – eccentric jet
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Eccentric jet of aortic regurgitation cursing along the posterior margin of the left ventricular outflow tract (anterior mitral leaflet). Estimation of severity of eccentric jets may be erroneous as often the severity tends to be under estimated in case of eccentric jets. AR: aortic [...]