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POCUS Echocardiography - Table of Cardiac Views and Windows
 • Parastemal Long-Axis View (PLAX)
 • Parasternal
POCUS Echocardiography ... View • PSAX: Mitral ... Flow Doppler #Anatomy ... #Heart #Windows ... Echocardiography #Cardiology
Atrial Fibrillation on POCUS Echocardiogram (A4C)

35yoF presents with acute onset atrial fibrillation.  POCUS shows dilated
(A4C) 35yoF ... mitral valve coaptation ... LV to LA across the ... #Fibrillation #AFib ... #cardiology
Atrial Fibrillation (A-Fib) Summary

Symptoms:
• Palpitations, light-headedness, dizziness, dyspnea, exercise intolerance, chest pain, near-syncope, syncope.

Why?
Cardiac:
	• Valvular heart
(< 5% pts with afibb ... weeks before or TEE ... Moderate or severe mitral ... valve • Left ... diagnosis #management #cardiology
Causes of Ischemic Stroke - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Important to determine and treat the etiology behind because
and morbidity Heart ... • Arrhythmias: Afib ... * • Valvular: Mitral ... stenosis, Prosthetic valve ... Structural: myxoma, thrombus
Widened Pulse Pressure - Differential Diagnosis and Pathophysiology

Pulse pressure is the difference between the systolic blood
Physiologic Causes ... valve conditions ... Endocarditis • Mitral ... Regurgitation • Mitral ... #cardiology
Palpitations - Differential Diagnosis Framework

What?
• It is an unpleasant awareness or sensation that the heart is
failure • Mitral ... valve prolapse ... stenosis) • Severe mitral ... /Afib/WPW) • Loss ... #Palpitations #Cardiology
Apical 2-Chamber (A2C) Window on POCUS Echocardiogram

Helpful to distinguish anterior and inferior regional wall motion abnormalities.
pooling of blood in the ... In this case, severely ... EF -> visible mural ... echocardiogram #clinical #anatomy ... #cardiology
Ebstein Anomaly on Echocardiogram

Ebstein anomaly. The tricuspid valve is ALWAYS more apically displaced than the mitral
mitral valve. ... congenital cause ... associated with an atrial ... Ebstein #Anomaly #POCUS ... #a4c