Echo Session

• RV is quite difficult to visualise by echo
• What are the 4 standard acoustic views for echo?

  Parasternal

  Apical

  Sub-costal

  Suprasternal
• What can you see from the suprasternal window?


  Aortic arch & descending aorta
• Usually position patient's lying on their L side.
• BART (blue away, red towards) -> colour coding for Doppler in USS
• If you have acute PE, the RV will dilated (cannot compensate & hypertrophy in time)
• Often when see dilated RV in a young patient, think atrial septal defect with R to L shunting.
• What is the most common congenital valvular condition?

  Bicuspid aortic valve
• IE can cause...


  Prolapse of valve leaflets

  Perforation of valve leaflets

  Aortic root ?infection