Two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography. Apical 5 chamber view
by Navin C Nanda, HK Chopra, Mahmoud Elsayed, Anezi Uzendu, Zeyad M Elmarzouky, Subash Dulal

Textbook of Echocardiography

by V Amuthan, Satish K Parashar
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This video clip showing two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography. Apical 5 chamber view. Arrows show a linear echo with disorganized, chaotic motion in the aorta (AO, “a worm wiggling in the aorta”) diagnostic of dissection. The dissection flap prolapses into the left ventricular (LV) outflow tract in diastole. Reproduced with permission from: Comprehensive Textbook of Echocardiography. Nanda NC (Ed). Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers. Philadelphia, New Delhi, London and Panama. 2014.

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