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🫀 One echocardiogram won't diagnose ATTR cardiac amyloidosis, but it can raise suspicion early enough to change a patient's life.
This infographic highlights key echocardiographic findings, including concentric LV wall thickening, biatrial enlargement, thickened valve leaflets, small pericardial effusion, and the characteristic GLS pattern of relative apical sparing.
🌍 https://amyloidosisafrica.org
#CardiacAmyloidosis #Amyloidosis #Echocardiography #Cardiology #AmyloidosisAfrica
ASE’s Comprehensive Echocardiography (2015) by Roberto Lang MD FASE FACC FAHA FESC FRCP and Steven A Goldstein MD FACC
Author: Echocardiography
File Type: PDF
Download at https://unitedvrg.com/2022/04/01/pdf-ases-comprehensive-echocardiography-2015-by-roberto-lang-md-fase-facc-faha-fesc-frcp-and-steven-a-goldstein-md-facc/
#Ultrasonography, #Echocardiography
Essential Echocardiography: A Companion to Braunwald’s Heart Disease (2019) by Scott D Solomon, MD, Justina Wu, MD and Linda D. Gillam
Author: A Companion to Braunwald’s Heart Disease
File Type: PDF
Download at https://unitedvrg.com/2022/02/07/pdf-essential-echocardiography-a-companion-to-braunwalds-heart-disease-2019-by-scott-d-solomon-md-justina-wu-md-and-linda-d-gillam/
#Echocardiography, #ACompaniontoBraunwald’sHeartDisease
https://www.europesays.com/3042461/ Applying AI-assisted heart analysis in clinical settings | AI-driven cardiac ultrasound analysis Project | Results in Brief | HORIZON | CORDIS #AI #AIDrivenCardiacUltrasoundAnalysis #ArtificialIntelligence #Cardiovascular #Clinical #Echocardiography #healthcare #Heart #Ultrasound
A Practical Approach to Clinical Echocardiography (2014) by Jagdish C., M.D. Mohan
Author: Jagdish C.
File Type: PDF
Download at https://unitedvrg.com/2022/12/07/pdf-a-practical-approach-to-clinical-echocardiography-2014-by-jagdish-c-m-d-mohan/
#Echocardiography, #JagdishC.
Pocket Atlas of Echocardiography 1st Edition (2005) by Thomas Boehmeke, Ralf Doliva-Pocket
Author: Echocardiography
File Type: PDF
Download at https://unitedvrg.com/2024/03/21/pdf-pocket-atlas-of-echocardiography-1st-edition-2005-by-thomas-boehmeke-ralf-doliva-pocket/
#Atlas, #Echocardiography
A Practical Approach to Transesophageal Echocardiography Third Edition (2013) by Albert C. Perrino Jr. MD and Scott T. Reeves MD MBA FACC
Author: Albert C. Perrino Jr. MD and Scott T. Reeves MD MBA FACC
File Type: PDF
Download at https://unitedvrg.com/2023/11/05/pdf-a-practical-approach-to-transesophageal-echocardiography-third-edition-2013-by-albert-c-perrino-jr-md-and-scott-t-reeves-md-mba-facc/
#Echocardiography, #AlbertC.PerrinoJr.MDandScottT.ReevesMDMBAFACC
Atlas of 3D Echocardiography (2012) by Edward A. Gill MD FAHA FASE FACP FACC FNLA
Author: Echocardiography
File Type: PDF
Download at https://unitedvrg.com/2023/03/18/pdf-atlas-of-3d-echocardiography-2012-by-edward-a-gill-md-faha-fase-facp-facc-fnla/
#Ultrasonography, #Echocardiography
Essential Echocardiography: Transesophageal Echocardiography for Non-cardiac Anesthesiologists (2016) by Timothy M. Maus
Author: Timothy M. Maus
File Type: PDF
Download at https://unitedvrg.com/2023/11/28/pdf-essential-echocardiography-transesophageal-echocardiography-for-non-cardiac-anesthesiologists-2016-by-timothy-m-maus/
#Echocardiography, #TimothyM.Maus
ACEI angioedema can hit at any time—skip the adrenaline, think Icatibant.
Takotsubo recovery can trigger DLVOTO; avoid adrenaline and always echo-monitor.
For LVOT gradients, know your jets: MR is rounded, LVOT is dagger-shaped.
IABP can help or hurt in shock—expert echo guidance is key! #Cardiology #MedicalScience #Echocardiography #Takotsubo #ACEi #Angioedema #ICu #MedEd #ClinicalCare #HeartHealth #MedMastodon #HealthTech
Long-serving Swansea NHS healthcare professional signs off with lifetime achievement award
Miss Sheryl Morris, Senior Chief Cardiorespiratory Physiologist, who recently retired from SBUHB after more than 45 years of service at Singleton Hospital’s Cardiology Department, now holds a British Society of Echocardiography Lifetime Achievement Award.
The British Society of Echocardiography presents the Lifetime Achievement Award annually to recognise members who have contributed significantly, and demonstrated outstanding achievements and longevity, within the field of echocardiography.
Dr Geraint Morris, Consultant Paediatrician and Clinical Apprenticeship Lead and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Swansea University Medical School, said:
Sheryl had been widely acknowledged as “an expert” in her field who had always gone “above and beyond” to do an “immeasurably large amount of good” for those in her care, stating he couldn’t think of anyone more “deserving” of the award, labelling it “a fitting gesture to mark the end of a career of which she can be extremely proud.”
“I can’t imagine that anyone deserves this more than she does, and we think this will be a fitting gesture to mark the end of a career of which she can be extremely proud, and during which she did an immeasurably large amount of good to the children, young people, and families under her care.
“Sheryl worked tirelessly as an NHS Cardiorespiratory Physiologist in Swansea for more than 45 years and developed expertise in paediatric echocardiography.
“She trained in Swansea and in Cardiff and started offering a paediatric echocardiography service in the late 1990s. Since then, Sheryl has been widely acknowledged as an expert in this skill among local and tertiary paediatric cardiology colleagues.
“Sheryl has always gone above and beyond in her post, from providing biscuits and refreshments for clinical colleagues in outpatient clinics, to staying on, well beyond her working hours, to ensure children who require urgent investigations get them, and acting, in many instances, as a conduit between clinical teams.
“It would be impossible to adequately assess the magnitude of the amassed hours that Sheryl has put into her job – finishing reports, replying to emails, and preparing for clinics, often alone in the department, when others have long gone home. Suffice to say that it has not gone unnoticed and her colleagues of all grades and disciplines are very grateful to her.
“Despite some significant health problems, Sheryl has seldom had any time off work. She is extremely resilient, and her dogged determination to complete all her duties to a high standard has never left a task unfinished. She has always, imperceptibly, booked annual leave to ‘suit’ the clinical work and has never begrudged the additional burden that this must have placed on her personal life.”
Dr Morris praised Sheryl for being a constant within the service over the years.
He said: “During times of rapid changes in healthcare, including transitions between clinicians, Sheryl is the one constant that her young patients have been able to recognise and expect to see in their hospital visits, from infancy to adulthood. Often patients, when explaining their histories, will address her, not so much the clinician in the room!”
Her contribution to the children’s service was recognised in the Health Board’s Chairman’s Awards Ceremony on 5th July 2018 with a Highly Commended award in recognition of her outstanding work.
Sheryl also played a role in shaping future careers.
Dr Morris said: “With the high number of young paediatric trainees who worked in the paediatric and neonatal services at Swansea, inevitably some developed an interest in paediatric cardiology and Sheryl was instrumental in teaching them echocardiography, and many of these have gone on to become consultants in various parts of the world, retaining the skills that Sheryl taught them.
“More recently, Sheryl has taught all our current excellent team of paediatric physiologists, from beginner level through to passing their European Accreditation Examination in paediatric echocardiography.”
Dr Morris added that Sheryl had proved to be the ‘model’ work colleague over the years.
He said: “On top of all her work-related achievements, she has been an extremely pleasant and agreeable colleague – she has never said a word in anger. She can be firm when needed but never crossed that professional line with her own feelings or views. Indeed, she has always been very cheerful, and her lovely smile has an uplifting effect on all around her.”
The award came out of the blue for Sheryl.
She said: “Receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award was a total surprise.
“I have been fortunate to have had a career that I have thoroughly enjoyed-particularly echocardiography. I have a lot of people to thank over the years for getting me to this point – too many to mention.
“I particularly want to thank all my colleagues who took the time to nominate me for this award as they thought I was deserving of it. I am truly overwhelmed and touched.
“This is the ‘icing on the cake’ of my career. Thank you so much. Diolch yn fawr!”
[Lead image: Swansea Bay University Health Board]
#BritishSociety #cardiology #Echocardiography #SingletonHospital #SwanseaBayNHS #SwanseaBayUniversityHealthBoard
Artificial intelligence-enhanced echocardiography in cardiovascular disease management
Lang, R. M. et al. Recommendations for cardiac chamber quantification by echocardiography in adults: an update from the…
#NewsBeep #News #Healthcare #CA #Canada #CardiacImaging #CardiacSurgery #cardiology #Cardiovasculardiseases #Echocardiography #general #Health #Medicine/PublicHealth
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/51265/
I can't really tell if this is good news or bad news.
Good news perspective: for this pretty large cohort of mild acute SARS-CoV2 cases, cardiac damage was subclinical
Bad news perspective: for this pretty large cohort of mild acute SARS-CoV2 cases, cardiac damage was quite detectable by imaging.
All participants were putatively healthy, none had moderate or severe COVID-19.
"In the present cohort of COVID-19-infected individuals with mild initial illness, echocardiographic measurements revealed significant yet subclinical differences in systolic and diastolic function compared with controls, as well as between individuals with cardiac symptoms and those without. All the measured differences were small in magnitude and thus unlikely to be detectable clinically at the individual level." [1]
[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-85221-w
h/t @Brad
🖥️ Using #echocardiography to predict fluid-responsiveness & manage need for fluids in #ICU, bedside experience + literature based approach:
💧💧 when to fill??
☔️ when NOT to fill??
💦 optional filling... gray zone of #POCUS parameters
PS adequate training pivotal to avoid misinterpretation!!
Free to read #FOAMcc #FOAMus #echofirst #POCUS on @ICM
🔓 https://rdcu.be/dH6nb
I did a talk for cardiologists about #criticalcareecho, emphasising the difference between outpstient/normal data and the critical ill. Supeisingly well recieved and I’ll reiterate my main points:
- Most important use for echo in critical illness is differentiating shock types, and detecting “black swan” conditions like LVOT obstruction and acute valvular pathologies
- Always combine echo with clinical findings.
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#echocardiography #CriticalCare #physiology
Interesting review of diastolic function grading in critically ill patients, basically arguing for left atrial strain. Some comments follow : https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/echo.15773 #echocardiography #CriticalCare #cardiology
I see this assertion repeatedly made, but it cannot both be true that a measure is load indepenendent and that it also tracks left atrial pressure! #echocardiography #CriticalCare #CritCareEcho
Suspicion of #PFO in #ARDS: if agitated saline is injected through CVC located in the SVC, #TEE is required to rule out the diagnosis.
If #TEE shows the presence of an #Eustachian valve, injection in a catheter located in the IVC territory is required.
Important data and reminder in #CriticalCare
#ICU #echocardiography #pocus #foamcc
https://ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13054-023-04670-9
I have to say I miss the old #ASE #Echocardiography guideline app, but the #BSE app is a great replacement https://apps.apple.com/app/id468166426 #Cardiology
A very interesting paper evaluating the effect of correcting low preload in critically ill patients, appropriately pointing out that global longitudinal strain alone cannot be used in this cohort to diagnose cardiac dysfunction. Preload induced change in GLS follows change in CI. https://annalsofintensivecare.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s13613-018-0376-8
#CriticalCare #CardiacDysfunction #GlobalLongitudinalStrain #echocardiography #POCUS #cardiology
Eye-tracking during simulation-based #echocardiography: a feasibility study
https://bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12909-023-04458-z
@strain_rate here’s one study showing how LA reservoir strain decreases in normal subjects as preload is reduced during a tilt manoeuvre #echocardiography #echofirst #Physiology https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0894731718304048
Reposting this fasctinating study here that I shared last year, on the effects on RAP and PCWP of rapid fluid loading (100-200ml/min 1L + 1L warm NS), in a first in healthy younger and older (>50yo) subjects. Striking results, with marked increases in pressures despite absence of heart failure. #echocardiography #cardiology #CriticalCare #Physiology https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.112.111302
A good idea and its validation.
Because LVOT area is related to body surface area:
echoVTI x HR x k = indexed CO
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36496041/
#POCUS #CriticalCare #Echocardiography #Hemodynamics #CardiacOutput #PAC #SwanGanz
Confusion between #AcuteCorePulmonale and #RightVentricularDysfunction is common in #ICU.
A very important reminder that anyone using #Echocardiography to assess #RightVentricularFunction in critically ill patients should read and share.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35737442/
#POCUS #CriticalCare #Hemodynamics #ThePeoplesVentricle #RightVentricle #RV #Anaesthesia #FOAMcc
Confusion between #AcuteCorePulmonale and #RightVentricularDysfunction is common in #ICU.
A very important reminder that anyone using #Echocardiography to assess #RightVentricularFunction in critically ill patients should read and share.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36335955/
#POCUS #CriticalCare #Hemodynamics #ThePeoplesVentricle #RightVentricle #RV #Anaesthesia #FOAMcc
Association between the early use of #Echocardiography in #ICU and outcomes in the patients with respiratory and hemodynamic support
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883944122001897
1st day of #adventarticles, sharing some of my all time favourite papers:
"Ejection Fraction Revisited" from Robotham et al, THE paper to read on ejection fraction.
One of many key takeaways:
Hyperdynamic LV/supranormal EF is not a sign of low preload, on the contrary EF is relatively preload insensitive and if anything very low preload lowers EF.
https://pubs.asahq.org/anesthesiology/article/74/1/172/31892/Ejection-Fraction-Revisited #physiology #criticalcare #echocardiography
Excelent example illustrating that MAPSE, TAPSE and mitral/tricuspid annulus tissue doppler velocities aren’t representative and should not be trusted when apex is not stationary, a quite common finding not leat in RV dysfunction. #echocardiography https://twitter.com/argulian/status/1595125295904088064?s=46&t=FrtHdpb02j-3NH4Sj0Oq6A
Another trial of automated EF measurements, limits of agreement +- about 20% seems less than tolerable. Off course, always a question how much error there is in the reference standard too. #echocardiography #ai https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/12/9/1413/htm
#introduction to new instance!
I'm an end stage #cardiology trainee working in Trondheim, Norway, finishing up a PhD in #POCUS in stroke care, aiming to subspecialise in #cardiaccriticalcare and #imaging. Obsessed with #criticalcare #echocardiography, fascinated by #physiology and #statistics, concerned about the future of our #publichealthcare system, #socialdeterminantsofhealth and #climatechange
Toots in English, Norwegian, Danish and French.
MPI aka Tei index is often described as an integrated index of systolic and diastolic function. In truth, this applies to pretty much any measure of cardiac function in #echocardiography. Diastole and systole are inextricably linked. #foamcc @[email protected]
#introduction Hi, I’m Lars, a late stage cardiology trainee in Norway finalising a PhD on #pocus in #stroke, and an aspiring cardiac intensivist.
Focused on general critical care and particularly heart failure, #physiology, multi organ ultrasound and critical care #echocardiography not least. My big pet peeve is the variable but inevitable load dependence of all echocardiographic measures of cardiac function, hence my handle😆.