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Mitral Valve Assessment 1
Mitral Valve Assessment 2
Mitral Valve Stenosis Scoring System

Normal Hepatic Vein Flow
Tetrology of Fallot
Doubly-committed subarterial VSD
ASDs
VSDs
Glenn and Fontan Procedure

Norwood Procedure

Hypoplastic Left Heart

Tricuspid Atresia

Double Inlet LV

Stages of Diastolic Dysfunction

Lipoma
- Second most common in adult (10%)
- Usually ventricle origin, occasional atrial
- Sessile, increased echogenicity, smooth
- Slow growing, large
- Distinguish from lipomatous hypertrophy
Lipomatous Hypertrophy
- Common in older women
- Spares the fossa ovalis
Papillary Fibroelastoma
- Small, pedunculated, mobile, echogenic
- Originate at valve leaflets, occasionally
endocardium (AV, then MV) - High risk of embolism
- Mistaken for vegetations
* Fibroelastoma grow on aortic side of AV,
vs. ventricular side as vegetations
Lambl Excrescences
Fibroma
(2nd most common in kids) (Rhabdomyoma #1)
- Originate in ventricles or AV groove
- Large single mass with central calcification
Sarcoma
- Malignant cardiac tumors
- Originate from ventricular myocardium
- Large and invade surrounding tissue
- **Enhance with ultrasound contrast due to
vascularity**
Left Atrial Appendage Thrombus
Migrating Thrombus across PFO
Myxoma
(30% primary cardiac tumors - Most common adult)
- Left atrium (occasionally RA or ventricles)
- Attaches to fossa ovalis from left atrial side
- Obstructs mitral valve flow
- Slow growing, pedunculated, large, smooth
- Friable and embolize

Rhabdomyoma
Most common in kids
- Strong associated with tuberous sclerosis
- Arise from ventricles (often multiple)
- Large, cause obstruction
- May spontaneously resolve
Christa Terminalis
- originates at the junction of the SVC and Right atrium
- separates trabeculated appendage of atrium from smooth tubular portion
Eustachian Valve/Chiari Network
- reminent of embryologic right venous valve (directs IVC blood across the fossa ovalis)
- originates at junction of IVC and right atrium
Pericardial Fat
Mirroring
- Result of quadrature phase demodulation, which allows the echo to separate out the Doppler shifted signals from the complex returning signal
Range Ambiguity of Pulsed Wave Doppler
- Strong reflected signals originating from blood flow at two to three times the depth of the pulsed wave sample arrive at the transducer the same time as the target, and are super imposed
- Best example, LVOT and AV velocities superimposed on pulse wave mitral flow
Moderator Band

1 = SVC
2 = Right Upper Pulm Vein
3 = Right Lower Pulm Vein