I practise in South Africa. Please tell me who manufactures Optison and Definity,and what the US costs are per study? Tom Mabin ... From: Tom Jackskon...
Tom Mabin
tmabin@...
Mar 1, 2002 2:13 pm
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- that's exactly the point: pathologic jets would trigger the advice to start IE prophylaxis, "physiologic" regurgitation signals don't. So that the...
Lothar Faber
lfaber@...
Mar 1, 2002 2:13 pm
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This is a great question. I pulled up the "Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease" from ACC/AHA in Circulation 1998 and they...
Laffey, Dawn
Laffey.Dawn@...
Mar 1, 2002 2:14 pm
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Fellow Echocardiography members: I trust you will find the following article excert and link (with related article links) of interest in that mitochondrial...
There is no data which specifically addresses risk of encarditis in trace AR (for or against). I tend not to recommend prophylaxis for only trace AR as long as...
Labib, Sherif B.
Sherif.B.Labib@...
Mar 1, 2002 4:04 pm
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For many years, I considered all aortic regurgitation pathological. Today I consider that the aortic regurgitation is graded on a 1-4 scale of trace, mild,...
Raśl Cayre
r_cayre@...
Mar 2, 2002 4:46 am
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Can anyone point to any references regarding females of child bearing ages that are pre dispose to this serious events of peri , or post partum...
Tom, Amersham Nycomed markets Optison in the US. I'm not sure that they own the manufacturing process. It was originally produced by MBI (Molecular ...
GersonSL@...
Mar 2, 2002 4:47 am
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The discussion shows: there is no evidence that could guide daily practice in assessing mild aortic regurgitation. In my opinion no Doppler phenomenon should...
HELLO IT'S MY PLEASURE TO BE WITH ECHOGROUPS. I'M A PORTUGUESE SONOGRAPHER FROM COIMBRA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AND I MAKE ECHO SINCE 1983. IN PORTUGAL WE ARE...
This thoughtful discussion has been enlightening, if not perplexing as well. As a member of the AHA Rheumatic Fever, Endocarditis committee,(but not speaking...
GEWITZ MICHAEL
michael_gewitz@...
Mar 6, 2002 2:06 am
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Regarding "physiologic" vs. "pathologic" regurgitation of the aortic valve. The distinction is somewhat moot since no study to my knowledge has been done that...
Zunamon, Alan
AZunamon@...
Mar 6, 2002 3:38 pm
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Are you referring to this? Minich LL et al. Doppler echocardiography distinguishes between physiologic and pathologic "silent" mitral regurgitation in patients...
Ling Lieng Hsi
mdcllh@...
Mar 6, 2002 3:39 pm
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I am looking for data on the diffusion all over the world of the digital systems (DICOM) to store, to share and to retrieve echocardiographic studies. For...
It depends upon what you want to do, and the workflow you're trying to accomodate. If you just want to look at echo pictures, there are a slew of DICOM systems...
Andrew Horning
ahorning@...
Mar 7, 2002 11:55 pm
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Our lab has done correlation reports for some time now. Recently, I have encountered a problem w/ MR severity. We have 2 cases in which echo showed severe MR...
My usual comment is something to the effect of "Will these cath people ever learn how to look at cardiac dynamics??" But more seriously, I would want to look...
GersonSL@...
Mar 8, 2002 3:57 pm
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We also do coorelation for ICAEL accreditation, but we don't coorelate MR with Cath, usually with a TEE if the patient has one. I don't understand what you...
Laffey, Dawn
Laffey.Dawn@...
Mar 8, 2002 6:24 pm
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If the MR was due to ischemia in the papp. muscle area en nitro s.l. was
given ,then this maybe would explain the better function of the papp. muscle
and the...
John Ritzen
j.ritzen@...
Mar 9, 2002 12:49 am
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We have recently completed a formal analysis on that. The main findings: MR grading by cath (- based on LV angio, calculated RF and V-wave) and echo (based on...
Lothar Faber
lfaber@...
Mar 9, 2002 1:10 am
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Dear friend, There are a number of reasons to explain an underestimation of the degree of MR by angio: -If the MR is indeed severe and chronic, LV and LA are ...
hector lardani
lardanih@...
Mar 10, 2002 1:29 pm
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The American College of Cardiology (ACC) is March 17th through March 20th in Atlanta. If anyone from your institution is attending, it will be a good chance...
Dr. Shindler, Please let your readers know that I have some exciting opportunities to join our program at East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine....
Sorrell, Vincent Leigh
SORRELLV@...
Mar 11, 2002 4:29 pm
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Hello, it's my pleasure to be with echogroups. I'm 41 years old, and I'm a Portuguese sonographer from Coimbra University Hospital, I make echo since...
We have a HP 1000 and we are selling it. Is there anyone interested in purchasing it? Please let me know. It's in excellent condition. Your use of Yahoo!...
Angelo Benincasa
abeninca@...
Mar 12, 2002 3:02 pm
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Is anyone aware of a study showing the incidence of mild aortic sclerosis & the progression of mild aortic sclerosis in people over 60 years of age. Rick...
