CV Imaging Cases

• Analyze This Image: All You Need Is an M-mode and a Doppler On the basis of the imaging studies, can you rule out the condition that is not consistent with the diagnosis?
  theheart.org on Medscape, November 11, 2019
• Analyze This Image: Augmented Reality? Can you rule out the conditions that don't match the spectral Doppler?
  theheart.org on Medscape, August 07, 2019
• Analyze This Image: What Is Being Shown Here?   Can you guess what the patient's likely presenting signs and symptoms are, based on these echocardiographic images?
  theheart.org on Medscape, May 31, 2019
• Analyze This Image: Diastolic Signal -- Systolic Diagnosis?   Can you decipher the diagnosis from a single Doppler image?
  theheart.org on Medscape, April 11, 2019
• Analyze This Image: Remote History of Mitral Valve Replacement   Mechanical valves can pose problems on imaging, but Ronald Wharton, MD, shows you how to see through the shadows.
  theheart.org on Medscape, December 06, 2018
• Echo Case: Four of a Kind Dr Wharton demonstrates an interesting and unusual case of a young adult with dyspnea, highlighting the value of M-mode echocardiography.
  theheart.org on Medscape, October 30, 2018
• Analyze This Image: Make The Diagnosis in Vein   Can you tell who has the lowest left atrial pressure from the pulmonary vein Dopplers? Bonus for diagnosing all four patients.
  theheart.org on Medscape, July 05, 2018
• Echo Case: Possibly an All-Time Record Case of…   One of the worst cases Dr Wharton has seen. Can you decipher from the M-modes alone as the echocardiographers of old had to?
  theheart.org on Medscape, June 08, 2018
• Analyze This Image: Double Take Required   Something is up with this echo image--but maybe not what you first think.
  theheart.org on Medscape, April 05, 2018
• Echo Case: A Classic Case of… You Tell Me   Several images, one underlying pathology--can you identify it? Dr Wharton explains what to look for.
  theheart.org on Medscape, February 28, 2018
• Echo Case: Not Just Another Left Atrial Appendage   This narrated case proves that no matter the indication for the echo, it pays to be thorough.
  theheart.org on Medscape, November 06, 2017
• Analyze This Image: An Echo With Associated Abnormalities   Can you make the diagnosis from the echo images or is a cardiac MRI needed?
  theheart.org on Medscape, September 28, 2017
• Echo Case: Why Is There Dyspnea? Start With the Doppler   Dr Wharton narrates a case of a patient with a history of rheumatic heart disease.
  theheart.org on Medscape, August 25, 2017
• Analyze This Image: Acute Chest Pain: What's Up?   The ECG is abnormal, can you guess what's up from the echo images?
  theheart.org on Medscape, May 17, 2017
• Echo Case: How Much Mitral Regurgitation Is There?   Dr Wharton narrates a case where all is not quite as it seems: A woman is experiencing heart palpitations. Years ago, her cardiologist told her she had severe mitral regurgitation.
  theheart.org on Medscape, April 12, 2017
• Analyze This Image: What's Causing the Mitral Regurgitation?   The echocardiography images show mitral regurgitation, but do they reveal the cause?
  theheart.org on Medscape, January 25, 2017
• Echo Case: Right Test, Wrong Reason   A critical piece of information is missing from this case. Can you solve the puzzle?
  theheart.org on Medscape, December 29, 2016
• Analyze This Image: Young and Short of Breath   Dr Wharton poses another echocardiography case challenge.
  theheart.org on Medscape, December 02, 2016
• Analyze This Image: Uncommon Cause for a Not-Uncommon Finding   There are a number of potential explanations for the first echo image in this case, but a thorough review of all the images reveals only one likely cause.
  theheart.org on Medscape, October 28, 2016
• Echo Case: Striking the Wrong Chord   Dr Wharton reviews a common finding with unusual attributes. Have you seen it before?
  theheart.org on Medscape, September 26, 2016