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POCUS Echocardiography - Table of Cardiac Views and Windows
 • Parastemal Long-Axis View (PLAX)
 • Parasternal
-Chamber View (A4C ... ) • SSN: Color ... Flow Doppler ... #Heart #Windows ... #Map #Comparison
Endocarditis Summary

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV substance use
• IV catheter
• Recent
mitral regurgitation ... occlusion that may ... Marantic (NTBE) Differential ... Paradoxical emboli via ASD ... Regurgitation • Colon
Causes of mitral stenosis
Rheumatic heart disease
 - Most common cause worldwide. Commissural fusion, thick MV leaflets
Causes of mitral ... stenosis Rheumatic heart ... chordae Severe mitral ... disease Infective endocarditis ... #diagnosis #differential
Causes of Primary and Functional Mitral Regurgitation (MR) 
Causes of primary mitral regurgitation
 - Rheumatic heart
Causes of Primary ... (MR) Causes of ... - Rheumatic heart ... Infective/marantic endocarditis ... #Functional #Differential
What's the Dx?
• 29-year-old male 
• Transfer community hospital 
• Hypotension
• Renal failure
• Altered mental status.
a mobile mitral ... regurgitant flow may ... appreciated by applying color ... Doppler over the ... Clinical #POCUS #Echocardiogram
Endocarditis - Overview and Differential Diagnosis Framework

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV
and Differential ... mitral regurgitation ... Paradoxical emboli via ASD ... Regurgitation • Colon ... #Differential #
Ebstein Anomaly on Echocardiogram

Ebstein anomaly. The tricuspid valve is ALWAYS more apically displaced than the mitral
displaced than the mitral ... commonest congenital cause ... acceleration starts (by colour ... Doppler), identifying ... #cardiology #a4c