Global Cardiac Surgery

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Once they returned in 2017, the team performed open heart surgeries on two patients (Ventricular Septal Defect and Mitral Valve Replacement). Together, they have operated nine Patent Ductus Arteriosus and two Chronic Constrictive Pericarditis between 2012 and 2015. Unfortunately, no other interventions have been performed since then.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

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. The second most common cause of medical cardiac tamponade is acute idiopathic pericarditis.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The exception is with postinfarction pericarditis , in which a completed transmural infarct results in inflammation of the subepicardial myocardium and STE in the distribution of the infarct, and which results in increased STE and large upright T-waves. These findings together are more commonly seen with pericarditis.

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