Early in my training as a medical student and intern, it seemed that all people ever cared about on an echo report was the…

According to the guidelines from the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) and Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists (SCA), a comprehensive transesophageal echocardiographic (TEE) examination consists…

Here’s a table I created that summarizes the classification for patients awaiting a heart transplant. Gone are the days of “status 1A, 1B, or…

Alteplase (recombinant tissue plasminogen activator, tPA) is a potent intravenous fibrinolytic (“clot buster”) used for everything from acute ischemic strokes and clearing central line…

Intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) allows cardiologists to visualize cardiac structures (aorta, valves, pulmonary veins, chambers, etc) from an ultrasound catheter usually threaded into the right…

The mitral valve (MV) separates the left atrium (LA) and left ventricle (LV). It’s a bileaflet valve composed of an anterior and posterior leaflet,…