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Pre-op cardiac surgery. What valvular abnormalities are present?

The commonest causes for aortic stenosis are calcific stenosis of a tricuspid valve, calcification of a bicuspid valve and rheumatic valve disease.

Over the last decade, focused transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) has been proposed as a tool that is ideally suited to image patients in extremis—those in cardiac…

Perioperative TEE Study. What pathology is seen here. What is the LV ejection fraction. Describe the valvular abnormalities. What surgery will the patient be undergoing?

Atrial Septal Defects account for 6-10% of all congenital heart disease & 30-40% of clinically important intra-cardiac shunts in adults. PFOs are present tin 20-25%…