Stress echo pics are present on our website. Please use as you please and we will try to update frequently with new cases. www.kcheart.com ... From: K. Gaspar...
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Jane and Paul Graham
jpg132@...
Sep 1, 2001 12:16 pm
Hi , RE: Integrated specialist cardiology management package. There is an excellent company in the UK that have been aound for 10-15 years, set up by cardiac...
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NEV1974@...
Sep 5, 2001 12:24 pm
We have an outpatient clinic connected with the Medical Center where there are many stresses performed daily. We have a shortage of nurses to inject...
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WHITEDAVEL@...
Sep 5, 2001 10:19 pm
We use a small pump to infuse the adenosine over 4 minuites. The nuclear med tech does the infusion with the direct supervision of the physician. The ...
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jfraser425@...
Sep 6, 2001 3:44 pm
I do adenosine nuclear stress tests and no one should do anything with Adenosine except an RN. A doctor must be present during the test and a nurse has to...
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Harrods
pontoon@...
Sep 7, 2001 12:33 pm
What dosing scale or protocol do you use when giving Adenosine? Someone mentioned IV over 4 min but there is such a short half-life of the drug-we are talking ...
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Sorrell, Vincent Leigh
SORRELLV@...
Sep 10, 2001 1:10 am
To the Group with information on elite athletes: I have no data to recommend antihypertensive treatment based on excessively elevated BP only during exercise...
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jtalano@...
Sep 11, 2001 3:19 pm
Vince I have always been interested in exercise induced hypertension as an early sign of cardiovascular disease. In my experience systolic hypertension during...
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jfraser425@...
Sep 11, 2001 3:19 pm
The dosing of Adenosine is calculated by weight of the patient. There is a formula that is used with weight in kgs. However, there is a maximum dose and if...
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khanal harihar
harikhanal@...
Sep 11, 2001 3:19 pm
To all sono experts, Ten day back I did echo and reported severe MS, mod-sev TR,PAP ~58mm of Hg, no calcification and no LA clot, good case for CMV(which we...
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Daniel Shindler
shindler@...
Sep 12, 2001 7:47 pm
To the group: Please comment on the article below by Dr. Thomas. ... Subject: Doppler Tissue Imaging - Clinical Utility or Technological Hype? Date: Wed, 12...
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Jeff Greer
uplandco@...
Sep 13, 2001 4:34 am
This article took to long to make its point. Also needs to use ASE terminology and not make up new acronyms as he goes. Get to the point man. It also talks...
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Eduardo Caguioa, MD
vicag@...
Sep 13, 2001 2:00 pm
Too long with many abbreviations/acronyms that are not ASE standard. He does have a point about DTI being clinically relevant and reliability is still...
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lisa harris
lisaeharris@...
Sep 13, 2001 2:26 pm
If anyone knows of area NYC hospitals that need cardiac techs with echo specialty to help with the tragedy of the trade towers please e mail ...
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Henrik Oxhøj
Henrik.Oxhoej@...
Sep 13, 2001 2:26 pm
What was Ra-pressure ? ... To all sono experts, Ten day back I did echo and reported severe MS, mod-sev TR,PAP ~58mm of Hg, no calcification and no LA clot,...
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Bill Phillips
phillipsbill@...
Sep 13, 2001 2:27 pm
If anyone is interested HP5500 for sale S4, Stress echo, etc....
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Frank Marcantonio
fmarcant@...
Sep 13, 2001 5:55 pm
Know of a pediatric cardiologist looking to sell an AcusonXP system loaded with probes for cardiology. System has Harmonic Imaging Capability and 4V2c ...
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Sorrell, Vincent Leigh
SORRELLV@...
Sep 14, 2001 3:40 pm
General Comments: I agree with most of the other's comments that this is a better "speech" than manuscript. Many of the ill-written comments may be appropriate...
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Chiara Lestuzzi
clestuzzi@...
Sep 14, 2001 4:39 pm
Somebody was interested in the new GE machine, the Vivid7. I saw and tested it at the Congress of the European Society of Cardiology in Stockholm, at the...
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Jay Lipoff
jilipoff@...
Sep 14, 2001 5:04 pm
Measure the pulmonary acceleration time. Jay Lipoff, MD, FACC __________________________________________________ Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help? ...
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Kofoworola Ogunyankin
kolufun@...
Sep 15, 2001 11:59 pm
This review is not accurate in its generalizations about the validations of tissue velocity imaging! There are several issues that could be discussed including...
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GersonSL@...
Sep 16, 2001 12:00 am
While the Power Motion Imaging form of Doppler Tissue Imaging does occasionally produce unique information in the technically difficult patient, I have yet to...
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Tim Thigpen
tthigpen@...
Sep 16, 2001 12:24 pm
Though a statistically a long shot, the differential of coarcation of the aorta should be considered in this patient. Many well conditioned coarcation...
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Hong Yang
yanghilda@...
Sep 16, 2001 2:48 pm
Hi Khanal: The one possible situation other than technical or instrumental error is pulmonary stenosis. If there is PS of any kind, you will misinterpret your...
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Jack Colman*
j.colman@...
Sep 17, 2001 7:46 pm
If PS is not accounted for, you may overestimate the PAP by using the TR jet velocity, but you cannot UNDERestimate it, as in this case. Jack M. Colman MD,...
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Lizz
lizz405@...
Sep 17, 2001 7:47 pm
Perhaps you were not in error, but maybe the hemodynamics changed. You may have made no error. When I look for PAP I check in the parasternal four, SAX at the...
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Daniel Shindler
shindler@...
Sep 18, 2001 8:12 am
The Heart of New England Is currently seeking a full-time Echosonographer to join its team. Concord Hospital, located in the capital of New Hampshire, is a 280...
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Zwakenberg Terry
Terry.Zwakenberg@...
Sep 18, 2001 8:15 am
I agree Gerson, I frequently utilize PMI for Endocardial border definition and sometimes it can make the difference between a non diagnostic and a diagnostic...
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Zwakenberg Terry
Terry.Zwakenberg@...
Sep 18, 2001 8:15 am
Pulmonary stenosis would decrease the PAP as estimated from the TR jet not increase it. Sometimes TR can be severe enough that the velocity actually drops...
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Chiara Lestuzzi
clestuzzi@...
Sep 18, 2001 2:42 pm
I completely agree with the fact that pulmonary stenosis can just overestimate the PAP calculated from TR curve. Actually, hemodynamics could have been changed...
