Monday, 15 August 2016

How to perform an optimal saline bubble contrast echo study

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Saline bubble contrast echo studies, sometimes called agitated saline studies, are used in echocardiography to test for the presence of a r...
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Thursday, 11 August 2016

Ten key facts about atrial septal defect

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Atrial septal defect (ASD), in which there is a communication in the interatrial septum allowing flow between left and right atria, is one ...
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Thursday, 28 July 2016

Spodick's sign: Downsloping TP segment in pericarditis

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There are lots of eponymous signs in ECG interpretation (Wellens, Mobitz, Wenckebach and so on), so it's always interesting to discover...
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Monday, 25 July 2016

16 eponymous signs in aortic regurgitation

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Aortic regurgitation has more eponymous signs than any other clinical condition. Here are sixteen of them to look out for next time you...
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Thursday, 21 July 2016

Echo assessment of LV diastolic function

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Assessing left ventricular diastolic function can get complicated. However, things were made a bit easier recently with the publication of ...
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Monday, 18 July 2016

Making sense of S2, the second heart sound

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In our blog a few days ago, we looked at the first heart sound and how it varies with different clinical conditions. In today's blog, ...
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Thursday, 14 July 2016

Ten key facts about S1, the first heart sound

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When we auscultate the heart, we normally hear the first (S1) and second (S2) heart sounds. Here are ten key facts about the first heart so...
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