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Norwood Procedure for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome

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Transcript of video: Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome is a very severe form of congenital heart disease, in which, the left ventricle, aorta and mitral and aortic valves are hypoplastic and valves may be atretic as well. This is diagrammatic representation of hypoplastic left heart syndrome.

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Single Frame Echo Quiz

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This is the aortic valve in closed position and mitral valve also appears to be closed in position. From the images you do not know whether the mitral valve is really fully closed or almost about to be closed. Separation between the attachments of the aortic and mitral valve. And this is aorta and this is left atrium.

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Ebstein’s Anomaly of Tricuspid Valve

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Transcript of the video: Ebstein’s Anomaly is one of the cyanotic congenital heart disease in which survival to adult life is common. This distance, between the anterior mitral leaflet and septal tricuspid leaflet, is usually only about 5 mm during echocardiography. Anterior leaflet is elongated and sail like.

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Basics of Echocardiography

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Tracing in the lower part is tissue Doppler imaging from the medial mitral annulus. A good knowledge of the anatomy of the heart is needed for interpretation of images from each view. This becomes more difficult in complex congenital heart diseases where the cardiac chamber positions and size may vary.