isbn: 9781119612803 passcode: Echocardiogram title: Chapter 4 layout: sidebar eleventyNavigation: order: 2 fka:
Color compare subxiphoid axial view demonstrating a right-sided inferior vena cava (blue) and left-sided descending aorta (red).
Subxiphoid long-axis view of the inferior vena cava in 2D and color Doppler. Note the normal collapsibility of the inferior vena cava.
Subxiphoid long-axis view of the descending abdominal aorta in 2D and color Doppler.
Subxiphoid axial situs sweep with the transducer at the top of the screen.
Subxiphoid axial color Doppler situs sweep with the transducer at the top of the screen. Note the hepatic veins connecting normally to the inferior vena cava.
Subxiphoid long-axis sweep with the transducer at the bottom of the screen.
Subxiphoid long-axis color Doppler sweep with the transducer at the bottom of the screen.
Subxiphoid short-axis sweep from base to apex. Note that the sweep starts to the right of the superior vena cava, demonstrating the right upper pulmonary vein.
Subxiphoid short-axis color Doppler sweep from base to apex. Note the color Doppler jet of a patent foramen ovale with left-to-right flow.
Apical four-chamber sweep from posterior to anterior. Note the coronary sinus.
Apical four-chamber color Doppler sweep from anterior to posterior.
Apical four-chamber reference view with color Doppler of the left and right ventricular inflows. Note the trivial mitral and tricuspid regurgitation color Doppler jets.
Apical four-chamber view with focus on the right ventricle in 2D and color Doppler. Note the trivial tricuspid regurgitation color Doppler jet.
Apical right ventricular outflow tract view in 2D and color Doppler. Note the trivial pulmonary regurgitation color Doppler jet.
Apical three-chamber view in 2D and color Doppler. Clockwise rotation of the transducer from the four-chamber view results in display of the left ventricular outflow tract on the left of the screen.
Apical three-chamber view in 2D and color Doppler. Counterclockwise rotation of the transducer from the four-chamber view results in display of the left ventricular outflow tract on the right of the screen. Note the trivial mitral regurgitation color Doppler jet.
Note the left atrial appendage on the right of the screen.
Left parasternal long-axis sweep from the right ventricular outflow tract to the right ventricular inflow.
Left parasternal long-axis color Doppler sweep from the right ventricular outflow tract to the right ventricular inflow.
Left parasternal long-axis reference view with magnified color Doppler views of the aortic and mitral valves.
Left parasternal view of the right ventricular inflow in 2D and color Doppler. Note the trivial tricuspid valve regurgitation color Doppler jets.
Left parasternal view of the right ventricular outflow tract in 2D and color Doppler. Note the trivial pulmonary regurgitation color Doppler jet.
Superior left parasternal view of the ascending aorta in 2D and color Doppler.
Left parasternal short-axis reference view.
Color compare left parasternal short-axis magnified view of the right coronary artery.
Color compare left parasternal short-axis magnified view of the left coronary artery. Note the bifurcation of the left main coronary artery into the left anterior descending (red) and circumflex (blue) coronary arteries.
Left parasternal short-axis sweep from base to apex.
Left parasternal short-axis color Doppler sweep from base to apex.
Left parasternal short-axis view of the mitral valve in 2D and color Doppler.
Left parasternal short-axis view at the left ventricular basal level.
Left parasternal short-axis view at the mid-ventricular level. Note the position of the left ventricular papillary muscles.
Left parasternal short-axis view of the left ventricle at the apex.
"Ductal view" in 2D and color Doppler.
"Ductal view" color Doppler sweep from right to left.
High left parasternal view of the main and branch pulmonary arteries in 2D and color Doppler.
Suprasternal notch short-axis view in 2D and color Doppler.
Left infraclavicular "crab view."
Left infraclavicular "crab view" with color Doppler. Note the four pulmonary veins draining into the left atrium.
Suprasternal notch color Doppler sweep of the left innominate vein.
Suprasternal notch arch sidedness sweep with superior angulation. Note the bifurcation of the first brachiocephalic artery to the patient's right.
Suprasternal notch arch sidedness color Doppler sweep with superior angulation. Note the bifurcation of the right brachiocephalic artery into the right common carotid (red) and right subclavian (blue) arteries.
Suprasternal notch long-axis view of the aortic arch in 2D and color Doppler. Note the origins of the three aortic branches.
Color compare suprasternal notch long-axis view of the left pulmonary artery.
Superior right parasternal long-axis reference view.
Superior right parasternal long-axis sweep to the right and then left.
Superior right parasternal long-axis color Doppler sweep from right to left. Note the false dropout of the inferior portion of the atrial septum.
Right parasternal short-axis sweep from posterior to anterior.
Right parasternal short-axis color Doppler sweep from posterior to anterior.
Note the right ventricular inflow and right outflow tract.
Note the en face images of the atrioventricular valves.