6 results for “transthoracic echocardiography”
71y · Male·end-stage cardiac failure on a background of ischaemic heart disease with dilate…
…there was delay in specialist assessment. He was eventually admitted to Flinders Medical Centre where echocardiography revealed severely reduced ejection fraction (<20%). Following discharge, he rapidly decompensated and…
20y · Male·cardiac arrest due to complications of infective endocarditis against a backgrou…
Maluovailoa Tafau, a 20-year-old man in custody, died from cardiac arrest due to infective endocarditis complicated by rheumatic heart disease. He had submitted two patient self-referral forms (September 2016 and Februar…
57y · Male·Intracerebral haemorrhage due to ruptured mycotic aneurysm due to infective endo…
Cary James Saunders, aged 57, a prisoner with pre-existing mitral valve prolapse and aortic regurgitation, died from intracerebral haemorrhage secondary to infective endocarditis caused by Streptococcus mitis. He present…
71y · Female·Haemothorax and haemopericardium secondary to ruptured dissecting aneurysm of th…
…mediastinal widening and aortic dilation. She was admitted for further investigation including formal echocardiography planned for the next day. She deteriorated acutely overnight and died from a ruptured thoracic aortic…
2y · Male·Hyaline membrane disease and pneumonia in the setting of pneumothorax
A 2-day-old term infant (2670g, small-for-gestational-age) presented with respiratory distress at 11 hours of life. A capillary blood gas at 1:14pm showed mixed respiratory and metabolic acidosis indicating decompensatio…
75y · Male·Multi-organ failure secondary to cardiogenic shock and anterior myocardial infar…
A 75-year-old man presented to a tertiary hospital ED with acute anterior STEMI but diagnosis was delayed by approximately 10 hours. The first hospital ECG at 6:47am showed diagnostic ST elevation but was not recognised …
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