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Vol 16, No 3 (2009)
Images in Cardiology
Submitted: 2013-01-14
Published online: 2009-03-10
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A-dip of the aortic valve by M-mode echocardiography

Ioannis Stathopoulos, Themistoklis Nissirios, Robert Ostfeld, Garet Gordon, Daniel Spevack
Cardiol J 2009;16(3):273-275.

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Vol 16, No 3 (2009)
Images in Cardiology
Submitted: 2013-01-14
Published online: 2009-03-10

Abstract

We present a case with the previously unreported finding of an a-dip in the M-mode tracing of the aortic valve. An a-dip is commonly seen in the M-mode tracing of the pulmonic valve motion, and represents near equalization of pulmonary artery and right ventricular end- -diastolic pressures during atrial contraction. M-mode echocardiography has become an ancillary study to the basic two-dimensional examination, but can often convey important features of cardiac hemodynamics quite elegantly, as the present case demonstrates.

Abstract

We present a case with the previously unreported finding of an a-dip in the M-mode tracing of the aortic valve. An a-dip is commonly seen in the M-mode tracing of the pulmonic valve motion, and represents near equalization of pulmonary artery and right ventricular end- -diastolic pressures during atrial contraction. M-mode echocardiography has become an ancillary study to the basic two-dimensional examination, but can often convey important features of cardiac hemodynamics quite elegantly, as the present case demonstrates.

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a-dip; aortic valve; M-mode; echocardiography

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Title

A-dip of the aortic valve by M-mode echocardiography

Journal

Cardiology Journal

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Vol 16, No 3 (2009)

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273-275

Published online

2009-03-10

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Cardiol J 2009;16(3):273-275.

Keywords

a-dip
aortic valve
M-mode
echocardiography

Authors

Ioannis Stathopoulos
Themistoklis Nissirios
Robert Ostfeld
Garet Gordon
Daniel Spevack

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