Blood Cyst of the Mitral Valve Diagnosed in an Adult after Systemic Thrombolysis by Diana C. Ramírez-Mesías, Juan F. Contreras-Valero, Gabriel D. Pinilla-Monsalve, Carlos E. Vesga-Reyes

“…She persisted with fever raising the suspicion of bacterial endocarditis. Transthoracic echocardiography did not report any masses, but later transesophageal imaging revealed a vegetation that was finally characterized as a blood cyst of the mitral valve based on ultrasound features. …”
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Pulmonary hypertension associated with connective tissue disease by Srinivas Rajagopala, Molly Mary Thabah

“…PH can be measured on echocardiography, but the gold standard for diagnosis is right heart catheterization. …”
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A Case of Right Ventricular Endomyocardial Fibrosis Presenting with Right Ventricular Failure in an Immunocompromised Patient by Ratul Ghosh, Biswajit Majumder, Shibsankar Sarkar, Somnath Maji

“…A middle-aged nondiabetic nonhypertensive male presented to us with features of right heart failure. Echocardiography shows a grossly dilated right atrium, reduced right ventricular (RV) volume with thickened RV wall, and obliteration of the apex of the right ventricle along with severe low-pressure tricuspid regurgitation. …”
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Caseous Necrosis of Mitral Annulus by Sinan Balci, Selcuk Akkaya, Selin Ardali, Tuncay Hazirolan

“…Due to asymptomatic presentation, its diagnosis is usually incidental. Echocardiography is the first choice of imaging in evaluation. …”
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Diagnosis and management of residual atrial septal defect after surgical failure: A case series by Satyavan Sharma, Akash Bhupesh Shah, Shankar Y. Machigar, Rajendra Umbarkar

“…The morphology of the residual defects was complex, and multimodality imaging (transesophageal echocardiography, peripheral venous contrast studies, computed tomography, and balloon occlusion) enabled accurate recognition. …”
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Noninvasive Assessment of Cardiopulmonary Hemodynamics Using Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Pulmonary Transit Time by Martin Segeroth, David Jean Winkel, Beat A. Kaufmann, Ivo Strebel, Shan Yang, Joshy Cyriac, Jakob Wasserthal, Michael Bach, Pedro Lopez-Ayala, Alexander Sauter, Christian Mueller, Jens Bremerich, Michael Zellweger, Philip Haaf

“…Low PTT values make the presence of DD and MVR—as assessed by echocardiography—unlikely.…”
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Aversion for Avulsion: A Case of Delayed Diagnosis of Traumatic Tricuspid Rupture by Wendy K. Bernstein, Nicholas Goehner

“…The diagnosis of traumatic papillary rupture and disruption of the valve apparatus was made on the day of admission after perioperative hemodynamic compromise and the use of intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography. However, treatment was delayed due to concerns of systemic anticoagulation leading to his eventual demise.…”
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Klippel–Trenaunay syndrome presenting as pulmonary embolism in an elderly person by P. K. Surendran, L. Asha Krishnan, C. M. Ali Sayyad, V. Udayabhaskaran

“…Subsequent D-dimer and echocardiography supported the diagnosis, and a computerised tomography pulmonary angiogram confirmed the same. …”
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Tuberculous pericarditis due to silicon oxide exposure. A case report with an imaging approach by Andrés Felipe Donado-Moré, Jorge Ignacio Arrieta-Castaño, Lina Fernanda Acevedo-Forero, Jorge Alberto Carrillo-Bayona, Alejandro Vega-Molina, Wilmer Orlando Aponte-Barrios, Oscar Andrés Franco-Tavera

“…Conclusions: Tuberculous pericarditis should be suspected in patients presenting with hemorrhagic pericardial effusion, which can be reliably identified by ultrasound/echocardiography, CT, or MRI. It is recommended to include supportive diagnostic studies such as echocardiography, plain and contrasted CT of the chest, pericardiocentesis with ADA testing of pericardial fluid, and pericardial biopsy as the standard diagnostic approach in cases with clinical suspicion to reach a definitive diagnosis. …”
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Non‐invasive telemedical care in heart failure patients and stroke: post hoc analysis of TIM‐HF and TIM‐HF2 trials by Serdar Tütüncü, Marcus Honold, Kerstin Koehler, Oliver Deckwart, Friedrich Koehler, Karl Georg Haeusler

“…Irrespective of known CHF, echocardiography was often missing during in‐hospital diagnostic workup after acute stroke/TIA.…”
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Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Tachycardia with Structural Abnormalities of the Right Ventricle and Left Ventricular Diverticulum by Bortolo Martini, Nicola Trevisi, Nicolò Martini, Li Zhang

“…ECG showed a QRS in left bundle branch block morphology with inferior axis. Echocardiography, ventricular angiography, and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMRI) revealed a normal right ventricle and a left ventricular diverticulum. …”
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Pulmonary tuberculosis presenting with tubercular myocarditis and shock in an adolescent child by Dinkar Yadav, Geeta Gathwala, Anita Saxena, Kapil Bhalla

“…The child was managed with anti-tubercular treatment (ATT) and was followed up regularly for monitoring of ejection fraction with echocardiography. The LV systolic function improved, with the ejection fraction increasing to 55%-60% at 3 months. …”
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Huge Interatrial Septal Aneurysm: A Coincidental but Rather Fatal Finding by Petros Tzimas, Georgios Papadopoulos

“…We intraoperatively diagnosed by transesophageal echocardiography a huge interatrial septal aneurysm mimicking a right atrial tumor. …”
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Very late-onset lead-associated endocarditis by Min-Soo Cho, Sung-Hwan Kim, Gi-Byoung Nam, Kee-Joon Choi, You-Ho Kim

“…Transesophageal echocardiography is essential for diagnosis, and treatment usually requires appropriate antibiotics and removal of the lead.…”
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Percutaneous transcatheter occlusion of large pulmonary arteriovenous fistula with Amplatzer Septal Occluder in a young cyanotic girl by K. Arun Kumar, Soumik Ghosh, Neeraj Awasthy, Om Shankar

“…The position of the device in situ occluding the feeding channel was verified by computed tomography pulmonary angiography and postprocedure echocardiography, which also revealed the obliteration of the right-to-left shunt.…”
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Traumatic Tricuspid Regurgitation as a Cause of Failure to Wean from Mechanical Ventilation by Yang Bin Jeon, Chul Hyun Park, Dae Sung Ma

“…Tricuspid valve regurgitation was found on echocardiography while he was on mechanical ventilation after the operation. …”
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Current Diagnosis and Therapeutic Approach of Functional Mitral Regurgitation by Prima Almazini

“…Functional mitral regurgitation is found in approximately one-third of patients with heart failure with a decreased ejection fraction. Echocardiography is the primary work-up for assessing the anatomy and function of the left ventricle, mitral valve, and severity of functional mitral regurgitation. …”
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Point-of-Care Cardiac Ultrasound Training Programme: Experience from the University Hospital Hradec Králové by Petr Grenar, Jiří Nový, Karel Mědílek, Martin Jakl

“…The implementation of emergency echocardiography by noncardiologists is mainly aimed at the standardisation of the procedure, a structured training system, and an agreement on competencies. …”
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Parachute-Like Mitral Valve Tuberculoma: A Rare Presentation by Arslan Masood, Gul Zaman Khan, Irfan Bashir, Zubair Akram

“…The unique morphology of this mass posed an imaging challenge that required 4-dimensional (4D) echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) detail to differentiate the mass from an anterior mitral leaflet (AML) aneurysm. …”
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Inability to Utilize Retrograde Cardioplegia due to a Persistent Left Superior Vena Cava by Rohesh J. Fernando, Sean D. Johnson

“…We present a case of an intraoperative diagnosis of a persistent left superior vena cava that altered the original plan to arrest the heart using retrograde cardioplegia. Echocardiography was instrumental in this diagnosis and avoided potentially inadequate myocardial protection during cardiopulmonary bypass.…”
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