Emergent Diagnosis of a Flail Mitral Leaflet With Bedside Echocardiography

Flail mitral leaflet (FML) with associated acute pulmonary edema and acute decompensated heart failure is an emergent condition requiring prompt recognition by the emergency physician (EP). Focused cardiac ultrasound (FOCUS) and lung ultrasound (LUS) have a vital role in the evaluation of FML in the...

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Autores principales: Hsu, Patrick, Shepherd, Caroline, Shokraneh, Keyon, Cabrera, Gabriel, Kalivoda, Eric J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7444964/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32850242
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9374
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author Hsu, Patrick
Shepherd, Caroline
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Cabrera, Gabriel
Kalivoda, Eric J
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description Flail mitral leaflet (FML) with associated acute pulmonary edema and acute decompensated heart failure is an emergent condition requiring prompt recognition by the emergency physician (EP). Focused cardiac ultrasound (FOCUS) and lung ultrasound (LUS) have a vital role in the evaluation of FML in the emergency department. This case report describes the identification of a FML with EP-performed bedside echocardiography.
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spelling pubmed-74449642020-08-25 Emergent Diagnosis of a Flail Mitral Leaflet With Bedside Echocardiography Hsu, Patrick Shepherd, Caroline Shokraneh, Keyon Cabrera, Gabriel Kalivoda, Eric J Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery Flail mitral leaflet (FML) with associated acute pulmonary edema and acute decompensated heart failure is an emergent condition requiring prompt recognition by the emergency physician (EP). Focused cardiac ultrasound (FOCUS) and lung ultrasound (LUS) have a vital role in the evaluation of FML in the emergency department. This case report describes the identification of a FML with EP-performed bedside echocardiography. Cureus 2020-07-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7444964/ /pubmed/32850242 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9374 Text en Copyright © 2020, Hsu et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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