The Basics
Calculate this
Impact
Name that VHD
Patho
100

The leaky valve suffers from this. 

Regurgitation/Insufficiency 

100

Normal IVC measurement

<2.1 cm 

100

Atrium can't hypertrophy so they do this instead. 

Dilate

100

The report description for the imaged aortic valve. Be Profesh! 

Sclerotic AV 

100

Potenially caused by rhematic fever, this is the shape of the anterior leaflet during diastole. 

Hockey Stick 

200

The kinked/narrowed valve suffers from this. 

Stenosis

200

I add this value to RAP with <2.1 cm IVC diameter and no collapse.  

8 mmHg

200

Sterling would agree, that increased pressure also does this. 

Increases Afterload

200

That aortic valve, though. 

Bicuspid Aortic Valve. 

200

The A, B, C ..... shape caused by pressure 

D shaped septum 

300

Pathology affecting heart valves not as prevalent since modern medicine. 

Rhematic Fever 

300

The formula that calculates pressure through the valve. 

P=4v(squared)
300

Regurgitation increases this idea from Sterling. 

Preload

300

That mitral severity and what we call the VHD. 

MS / Severe 

300

Patient presents with fever and the sonographer finds this on Echo.  This is the pathology and the disease process.  

Vegetation/Endocarditis

400

The PISA baseline values to see the hemispheric shape of the convergence of flow. 

20 - 40 cm/s 

400

The pressure half time of MS is 2.  What is the MVA? 

110 cm(squared)

220/p1/2t

400

Chaos ensues following stenosis and this happens to pressure.  

Decreased Pressure

400
Valvular patho seen with connective tissue disorders like Marfan, Lupus, and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. 

MVP

400

 That bright stuff seen on the mitral annulus. 

MAC - mitral annular calcification 

500

The flutter of the mitral valve is seen with this other pathology. 

Severe AI 

500

The peak gradient for AS totals 64.  This is the velocity. 

4

500

Prime example of this class of MR following atrial dilation.  

Secondary MR

500

PVA = 

0.785 x RVOT(squared) x RVOT VTI / PV VTI 

500

Name that congenital pathology and what it's caused by. 

Displaced tricuspid valve - Epstein's Anomaly 

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