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Mild Tricuspid Regurgitation

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This is the schematic diagram of the heart in which you can see right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, left ventricle, aorta and pulmonary artery. Similarly, another right sided valve is the pulmonary valve. There could also be some mild leak in the pulmonary valve, both these, in normal persons.

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Eccentricity Index in Bicuspid Aortic Valve

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Transcript of the video: Closure line of aortic valve on M-Mode echocardiogram, is seen as central line, while in bicuspid aortic valve, it is an eccentric closure, nearer to one of the walls of the aorta. That is an important feature of bicuspid aortic valve on M-Mode echocardiogram. It forms almost like a box or rhomboid shape.

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Single Frame Echo Quiz

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Similarly, for echocardiogram, what we would do usually is, first we do a clinical history evaluation, then physical examination, and after that only we proceed with echocardiography in our routine work. You can see the two dimensional sector imaging from an echocardiogram and I have marked out the aorta.

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Basics of Echocardiography

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The image shown here is an animated 2 dimensional echocardiogram. This one is an older mode known as time-motion mode or M-Mode echocardiogram. The aorta, right ventricular outflow tract and pulmonary artery up to its bifurcation is imaged in the upward angulation shown in the left panel.