Single Frame Echo Quiz

Transcript of the video: Interpreting an echo quiz just from a single frame has a lot of limitations. But, still for an academic exercise, we will try. Unlike the ECG, where a single image may be more informative, echo usually requires moving images. And moreover, even ECG requires a knowledge of the clinical background before interpretation, to avoid errors. 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. But for an academic curiosity, we will just try to interpret an echo image, which is a single frame only. This is an echocardiographic image from the parasternal long axis view. This is the location of the transducer, and this is the sector scan. You can see the two dimensional sector imaging from an echocardiogram and I have marked out the aorta. This is the aortic valve in closed position and mitral valve also appears to be closed in position. That is because timing of the image may be in such a way that, it could have been in such a way that both valves are in closed position. And this is aorta and this is left atrium. From the images you do not know whether the mitral valve is really fully closed or almost about to be closed. These are the features which are evident from this still image. So I will give you a few moments, to think about the possible findings over here and arrive at a possible diagnosis or differenti...
Source: Cardiophile MD - Category: Cardiology Authors: Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs