Shadowing and reverberations from metallic mitral prosthesis
by Nanda Navin C

Comprehensive Textbook of Echocardiography

by Navin C Nanda
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This video clip showing two-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography performed in another patient with a metallic prosthetic valve shows acoustic shadowing (arrows) and reverberations on the ventricular aspect of the prosthetic valve but the left atrium is clear. Thus, both transthoracic and transesophageal modalities complement each other in adequately assessing metallic prosthetic valves. (LA: Left atrium; LV: Left ventricle; RA: Right atrium; RV: Right ventricle).

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