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Cool echo - RV strain, McConnell sign, and CLOT IN TRANSIT!! BP is normal and pt
Cool echo - RV strain ... BP is normal and ... @eabramsMD #Clinical ... #POCUS #Echocardiogram ... #A4C #McConnells
This 24M presented with acute onset CP/SOB, hypoxia, HR 150s. What's the diagnosis? Treatment options? Hint:
3 d later with normal ... LV and RV function ... #Clinical #POCUS ... #Echocardiogram ... #A4C #McConnells
Parasternal Short-Axis (PSSA) view with right ventricle (RV), circular left ventricle (LV), and papillary muscles #Clinical
right ventricle (RV ... left ventricle (LV ... papillary muscles #Clinical ... #Cardiology #POCUS ... #PSAX #ALiEM
McConnell's Sign in RV Infarct
This patient arrived as a STEMI alert. Apical 4-chamber view showing a
in RV Infarct ... Sign); LV function ... #Sign #clinical ... #POCUS #Echocardiogram ... #A4C #cardiology
Pulmonary Artery Clot seen on PSAX in Acute Saddle Pulmonary Embolism

Suspicious for PE? You can use
seen on PSAX in ... You can use #POCUS ... to evaluate for RV ... dilation, McConnell's ... #Artery #PSAX #
D-Sign in a lady with Massive PE - The LV should always be round like a
Massive PE - The LV ... overwhelm the RV ... LV takes shape of ... #POCUS #Cardiac ... #PSAX #DSign #MassivePE
Ebstein's Anomaly on Echocardiogram

• Failure of the TV to "de-laminate" from the RV
• An abnormality of
& TV >> LV & MV ... Myopathy" (sometimes LV ... Ebsteins #Anomaly #A4c ... #Echocardiogram ... #POCUS #clinical
Complex mitral valve endocarditis with pericardial effusion, myocardial abscess, and reduced LV systolic function - Echocardiogram
abscess, and reduced LV ... (PLAX) Detailed ... myocardial #abscess #plax ... #clinical #cardiology ... #pocus
LV Pseudoaneurysm

• False “pseudo” aneurysm: rupture w/ blood contained *outside* wall layers. (case below)

• True aneurysm:
LV Pseudoaneurysm ... HeartToProve #LV ... #Ventricular #Clinical ... #POCUS #CardiacMRI ... #PSAX #A4C #Echocardiogram
Huge mural thrombus occupying 1/3 the LV.
MI effecting [LAD territory]

In PLAX view, The unechoic line between
occupying 1/3 the LV ... territory] In PLAX ... between IVS and the clot ... Mural #Thrombus #clinical ... #pocus #a4c