Journal of the American Heart Association

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Journal of the American Heart Association, Ahead of Print. BackgroundThe complexity of congenital heart disease has been primarily stratified on the basis of surgical technical difficulty, specific diagnoses, and associated outcomes. Among the 174 echocardiograms analyzed, 68.9% were outpatient; 34.5% were follow‐up; 46.6%

Pediatrics 40

Pediatrics Congenital Heart Disease Echocardiogram Outpatient 40

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

I think a good start would be a posterior EKG and a high quality contrast echocardiogram read by an expert. His inpatient clinicians did not think that an urgent angiogram was warranted given that he was chest pain free, his EKG appeared nondiagnostic, and serial troponins were not elevating beyond 2 ug/L. Herzog et al.

Chest Pain 52

Chest Pain Myocardial Infarction Cardiac Arrest Ischemia 52

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

A transthoracic echocardiogram showed an LV EF of less than 15%, critically severe aortic stenosis , severe LVH , and a small LV cavity. As I met the paramedics and cath team in the lab, I was ready to see severe coronary disease (CAD), but the vessels were non-obstructive. Heart 2011; 97 : 838-843 [link] 14.

Ischemia 40

Ischemia Cardiogenic Shock Aortic Stenosis 40