#echogenics#echofirst#ASE Answer - Fluid.
Attenuation = loss of ultrasound energy as it travels through tissue.
Fluid attenuates ultrasound the least → sound travels through it very easily
Soft tissue = moderate attenuation
Bone and air = very high attenuation
Simple memory hook:
Fluid = best transmission / lowest attenuation
Bone & air = worst transmission / highest attenuation
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When you carefully watch the Mitral Regurgitation pattern with the right color gains, it can be very informative, I have ZERO belief in written echo reports, how can you describe this in words? Give patients a flash drive with their echo loops!
I put it on their phones!
Two different patients, same issue.
After mitral valve replacement with resection of the papillary muscles and subvalvular apparatus, both show distorted LV geometry and impaired LV function.
Both images are inverted!
3D TEE ventricular en-face view of the mitral valve with full A1–A3 / P1–P3 segmentation, aortic cusps, LVOT, LAA and RV as landmarks #echofirst
📌 Flipped mid-esophageal 4 chamber view as a 2D reference plane
📌 GE 6VT-D Multiplane TEE probe
💓 Left atrial reservoir strain (LASr) predicts heart events better than LV or RV strain. 🩺 Routine LASr measurement may improve risk assessment and patient care 📊 https://t.co/x1DwWY3mgp
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