Category Medical Specialty
Echocardiography LITFL ECHO

Echo basics: Pulmonary Valve

Understand and identify the pulmonary valve. Learn how to identify and grade pulmonary regurgitation and quantify pulmonary stenosis. Basic management of pulmonary valve dysfunction.

Nil Fyodorovich Filatov (1847-1902) 680

Nil Filatov

Nil Filatov (1847–1902), founder of Russian paediatrics, described key signs in measles, rubella, and mononucleosis; led Moscow’s first children’s hospital.

Louis Virgil Hamman (1877-1946) 680

Louis Hamman

Louis Virgil Hamman (1877–1946), Johns Hopkins physician and diagnostician, described Hamman’s sign, Hamman syndrome, and Hamman-Rich syndrome

Echocardiography LITFL ECHO

Echo basics: Tricuspid Valve

Understand and identify the tricuspid valves. Learn how to identify and grade tricuspid regurgitation and quantify tricuspid stenosis. Basic management of tricuspid valve dysfunction.

Charles Beevor

Charles Edward Beevor (1854-1908) was an English neurologist. Beevor sign - indicating a spinal cord lesion between T10 and T12

Karel Maydl (1853-1903) 680

Karel Maydl

Karel Maydl (1853–1903), Czech surgeon, pioneer of colostomy, bladder exstrophy surgery, and Maydl’s hernia; early describer of Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease (LCPD)

Echocardiography LITFL ECHO

Echo basics: Aortic Regurgitation

Understand and identify aortic regurgitation. Learn how to identify and grade aortic regurgitation gradient using measurements and visual clues and quantify aortic regurgitation.

Echocardiography LITFL ECHO

Echo basics: Aortic Stenosis

Understand and identify aortic stenosis. Learn how to measure an accurate aortic valve gradient and calculate the aortic valve area. Be able to diagnose low-flow states and paradoxical low flow

Owen Conor Ward (1923-2021) 680

Owen C. Ward

Owen Conor Ward (1923–2021), Irish paediatric cardiologist, co-described Romano-Ward syndrome; pioneer of children’s cardiac care and medical historian