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Correspondence on 'Echocardiographic estimation of pulmonary pressure in patients with severe tricuspid regurgitation by Lemarchand et al

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Lemarchand et al 1 address an everyday question in the echocardiography laboratories about the reliability of systolic pulmonary artery pressure (sPAP) estimation in cases of severe tricuspid regurgitation (TR). As the tricuspid orifice becomes larger and non-restrictive, the convective component.

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Basics of Echocardiography

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Transcript of the video: Echocardiography is now not restricted to the echocardiographic laboratory. The aorta, right ventricular outflow tract and pulmonary artery up to its bifurcation is imaged in the upward angulation shown in the left panel. Colour flow shows the flow in pulmonary artery.