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Evaluation of JVP

All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

To revise the anatomy lessons, this is the external jugular vein and this is the internal jugular vein. And that will be the approximate level of the tricuspid valve, the reference point for measuring right atrial pressure. That occurs in right heart failure and constrictive pericarditis.