Artifacts vs fiction
Fact or Fiction: Increasing depth will increase duty factor
Fiction
This mass involves endothelial cells and can also be seen in the AV groove
What is angiosarcoma?
Dr. Marhefka likes to point this finding out when you're reading with him, suggestive of...
What is E point septal separation, suggestive of LV dilation?
Name the pathology shown here
What is AS?
Not to be confused with someone who doesn't text you back, this is the type of artifact shown.
What is ghost artifact?
This type of mass really has no chamber preference, and can also be seen in the pericardium with a pattern of nodularity.
What is Rhabdomyosarcoma?
The image on the right with the yellow arrow is showing this form of pathology, more mild than what is shown on the left.
What is Mitral valve prolapse ?
This type of artifact can account for a false mass in the right atrium
What is Beam Width Artifact?
JHN consult? Don't worry, his valvular mass has a low risk of embolization and is usually benign. Consult can wait until the morning.
What is Lambl's excresence?
The ratio of X/Y correlates with this on M mode...
What is peak gradient?
Your patient has what? Better get their kids screened too...
What is bicuspid aortic valve
What is Fiction.
Optimization of synchrony is the situation in which echo can be useful, but not for initial placement of CRT.
What is Fibroma?
Stat consult!
This finding on M mode in the middle of the night means you better wake up Greg or Mark…
What is diastolic free RV wall collapse?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!
Even though this is an M mode, it represents this type of mass...
What is an atrial myxoma?
The finding shown in arrows here correlates with THIS murmur (please give the eponym for points)
What is an Austin Flint murmur?