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The Chiari Network in an Echocardiography Student
Author(s) -
Pellett Andrew A.,
Kerut Edmund K.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.0742-2822.2004.03069.x
Subject(s) - health science , library science , center (category theory) , medicine , cardiovascular health , state (computer science) , medical education , mathematics , computer science , chemistry , disease , algorithm , crystallography
Figure 1. Parasternal short-axis systolic frame at the level of the aortic valve. The Chiari network is located in the posterior right atrium. Although precise attachment sites could not be identified, real-time imaging suggested constrained motion near the interatrial septum. RA = right atrium; RV = right ventricle. pentine highly mobile reflective structure was noted in the right atrium (RA). By parasternal longand short-axis views it appeared to whip toward the posterior aspect of the right atrium during systole, and then prolapse across the tricuspid annulus during diastole (Figs. 1 and 2). From these views as well as apical (Fig. 3) and subcostal (Fig. 4) views, the mass moved in and out of the scan plane. The structure was constrained near the orifice of the inferior vena