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Echo MasterClass

Right Heart Disease

Chapter 16
Presenter: Prof. Thomas Binder, MD, FESC
1:19:00
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What you will learn

Early diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension is crucial for the prognosis of patients with pulmonary hypertension. Echocardiography is the primary diagnostic tool to do so. In this chapter we will show you how to detect pulmonary hypertension and what to do if direct measurement of pulmonary pressure using the tricuspid valve signal is not possible.

  • Assessing the right ventricle using echo
  • Tips and pitfalls
  • The most important diseases affecting the RV
  • The most important diseases affecting the RV

Video lectures

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Cases

Finding the hidden key

A subtle finding on the echo points to the correct diagnosis

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Feeling Tired

Look at this echo and see if you can guess which “event” this patient had. The echo explains why he is always tired.

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Right / Wrong

Dramatic presentation - A dead right ventricle

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OOPS

Something went wrong here but thanks to echo we found out what

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Case stories

Precapillary Pulmonary Hypertension

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What to look for in the echo exam.

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Optimized 4-Chamber View: the Right Ventricle

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Experiment with the transducer.

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Christmas Wonders – Part 01

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Often we are confronted with medical dilemmas, catastrophes and situations where all our efforts to help our patients were in vain.

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Detecting a Mistake

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All humans make mistakes, including the best trained jet pilot, the professional mountain climber, or the skilled acrobat. The same is true of doctors...

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The Ignorant

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Today's case is awesome - please read all the way to the end ... we need your advice!

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The Pretender

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Helga, 34 years old and mother of three children, had started to feel strange of late - read this case!

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Three stories - one plot

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We wrote a little play for you. A play based on true facts and actual people, which takes place at or around Naschmarkt in Vienna.

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The Opera Singer

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Heinrich is an opera singer - a tenor to be exact. He went to a cardiologist after a heart murmur and a right bundle branch block were detected.

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Lindarella and the Wicked Malady

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Echocardiography tales: Princesses and knights fighting against evil witches and three-headed monsters.

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Fact sheets

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Click on the link below to download or print your fact sheet.