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Patient treated as fluid overload secondary to cardiac failure (HFpEF). ECHO shows hypertrophied LV, walls kissing on PSLA, mitral valve anterior leaflet excursion good, seems like reasonable LVEF on gross viewing.Couldn’t obtain good SC4C view.

Patient diagnosed with NSTEMINoted by clinicians to have diastolic murmur.ECHO shows ??mitral stenosis. Possible dilated LV but may be due to suboptimal views

Patient presenting with worsening SOBOE.CXR suggests possible minor effusion with small blunting of CP angles, but no pulmonary oedema seen otherwise. LUS showed bilateral effusions and increased pulmonary oedema.But IVC doesn’t appear plethoric, LVF poorly assessed.

Elderly female patientRight pleural effusion Apical window shows normal lung with one B-line interrupting A-line artefacts.Posterolateral window shows atelectasis of right lung (starfish sign) due to large volume of pleural effusion. Liver and echogenic diaphragm also visualised on the right… Read More »Lung 1; large pleural effusion

80-something Year old maleDiagnosed NSTEMI on admission. Due Angiography that day. On medical management.