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Cardiac Dimensions Appoints Satya Shreenivas, MD, as Chief Medical Officer

DAIC

He led the structural heart program and cardiac catheterization laboratory at the University of Cincinnati and spent several years with The Christ Hospital in Ohio. Shreenivas has been instrumental in advising Cardiac Dimensions on its EMPOWER Trial of the Carillon Mitral Contour System. “We

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Abstract 4141052: Rare Combo: An Unusual Case of a 54-year-old Filipino with Coronary Artery Fistula from Left Anterior Descending Artery to Main Pulmonary Artery and Acute Cerebellar Infarct: A Cardio – Cerebral Infarction Syndrome - Case Report

Circulation

Laboratory tests showed markedly elevated troponin I levels (>50 ng/ml) and atrial fibrillation, along with inferior wall ST elevation on the electrocardiogram. A 2D echocardiogram revealed an ejection fraction of 43%, hypokinesia of the anterior and intraventricular septum from base to apex, and severe mitral stenosis.

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Basics of Echocardiography

All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

Transcript of the video: Echocardiography is now not restricted to the echocardiographic laboratory. Tracing in the lower part is tissue Doppler imaging from the medial mitral annulus. Opening and closing movements of the aortic and mitral valves are visible. Hence a basic knowledge is needed for all physicians and paramedics.

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The Nation’s Heart: Ghana

Global Cardiac Surgery

Documented reports in Ghana go back to 1964 with the use of surface cooling to close atrial septal defects (ASDs) and performing a closed mitral commissurotomy at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, under Charles Easmon, general surgeon and head of the Surgery Department at the hospital.

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Critical Left Main

EMS 12-Lead

Mitral valve calcification with mild regurgitation Laboratory data (pre-procedure) 1. LCx and RCA with luminal irregularities, but free of stenosis She was referred to cardiothoracic surgery, and underwent CABG x3 the following day. Echocardiogram findings (pre-procedure) 1. Normal LV/RV systolic function, EF 60-65 2. Troponin I 2.

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A woman in her 20s with syncope

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

However, if you freeze the ultrasound clip and scroll forwards and backwards to find a time during the clip where the patient’s mitral valve is open, you know the heart is filling, and is therefore in diastole. Electrical alternans — was first observed in the laboratory by Herring in 1909.