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Brooklyn boy, Umass/Worcester since 1987, Dad, Grand Dad, & clinical cardiologist and teacher; love to integrate imaging with 'haemodynamics' and function.

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Dr. Saric served as the visiting professor at UMass. He did a phenomenal job teaching us and our fellows.

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The Pathophysiology and Assessment of Diastolic Dysfunction: Important Clues From Stress Cardiomyopathy
Timothy P. Fitzgibbons, Matthew F. Gottbrecht, Gerard P. Aurigemma

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https://t.co/Hd1IBi3k9J

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Editorial In JASE from our Echo Lab
All you wanted to know about the history of diastolic function evaluation

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Dyssynchrony caused by a bypass tract. Eric Monahan RDCS obtained these spectacular images. Would not blame you if you thought this might be cardiac involvement in sarcoidosis

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Total bicspidity is achieved here. Aortic dilation thrown in at no extra charge

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For this and more come to Echo Florida

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My colleague John Dickey MD shared this with me. This is what we, in Worcester, call “the violent left bundle branch block” (That term was invented by sonographer Jeff Hill RDCS.) I will go out on a limb lead and say that this patient will respond nicely to CRT

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Total bicspidity is achieved here. Aortic dilation thrown in at no extra charge

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An example of foreshortening In a patient who likely has a mid ventricular HCM

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Bryon Gentile, our Structural Echo Director, Explains that this is a chicken wing appendage in the transverse sinus. It is surrounded by pericardial fluid.

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Is this an appendage within an appendage? The “Russian doll” effect

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A clue that you need to refresh your knowledge base on vascular Anatomy: “the layers of the vessel wall are the intima, media, and…… uh…..Santa Maria”

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At our institution we insist that the left atrium wears a bowtie

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Six month old Mechanical valve in the aortic position. Patient completely asymptomatic.

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I learned so much from my colleagues.

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Great sessions @ ASE ‘s Echo FLA today

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Be sure to tune in to ASE’s Echo Florida this weekend

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An unusual combination of rheumatic and myxomatous changes