Echocardiography

When Do You Need to Do Pericardiocentesis?

09/02/2014

Morton Kern, MD, Clinical Editor; Chief of Medicine, Long Beach Veterans Administration Health Care System, Long Beach, California; Associate Chief Cardiology, Professor of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Orange, California

Morton Kern, MD, Clinical Editor; Chi...

We were called to the intensive care unit to see a 52-year-old man with end-stage renal disease on weekly hemodialysis who had a large pericardial effusion and increasing dyspnea with activity.

We were called to the intensive...

09/02/2014

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Percutaneous Closure of a Ventricular Septal Defect Using Intracardiac Echocardiography

05/02/2013

Jon C. George, MD and Harit Desai, DO, Division of Interventional Cardiology and Endovascular Medicine, Deborah Heart and Lung Center, Browns Mills, New Jersey

Jon C. George, MD and Harit Desai, DO...

Appropriate anatomy for transcatheter closure includes a VSD location remote from the tricuspid and aortic valves with an adequate rim.

Appropriate anatomy for...

05/02/2013

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