"TEE OR NOT TO TEE?"

Intermediate TEE

Over 56,000 aortic valves are replaced annually in the United States, making AS the second most common reason for heart surgery, behind only coronary artery disease. The intraoperative echocardiographer plays a part in confirming the diagnosis of AS, quantifying its severity, and ensuring proper prosthetic valve function postoperatively. However, the aortic valve is only one component of the ao...

TEE - The Electronic Exercise

The Electronic Exercise (TEE) is an experimental adaptive learning system which uses knowledge structures to apply an intelligent tutoring algorithm and especially the representation of its surmise relation via HASSE diagrams to navigate within the learning material, to visualize the learning progress and convey the structure itself to the learner. TEE is implemented via dynamic HTML and comes ...

Wood-swinging Paul Wood, M.D.: "Tee or tea?".

To shock or not to shock? Parasystole of the left atrial appendage mimicking sinus rhythm at TEE-guided cardioversion.

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Intraoperative TEE for the Hypertrophic Left Ventricle

Considerable time and effort is concentrated on left ventricular systolic dysfunction, yet the hypertrophied left ventricle causes considerable morbidity and mortality, as well as poses clinical and diagnostic challenges. Dealing with a left ventricle with an ejection fraction of 80-100% is far from ideal when the stroke volume is markedly reduced. This discussion will review the scenarios lead...