Good morning fr #Pasadena. Another #Heatwave, but hopefully the last intense 1 of the year.

Today, & 37ºc (99ºF) so working indoors, arranging second kitchen to receive a new fridge. We live in a duplex & therefore have 2 <too> small kitchens.

Here are 2 photos fr the dog park this morning. I'd promised myself a walk today, but my mind is still too much on yesterday’s news from my cardiologist.

Last year, I was diagnosed with mitral valve regurgitation, but my #EchoCardiogram of last week shows that my heart is also enlarging and the valve regurgitation has also worsened though it's still only mild-to-moderate (before it was only mild).

I am so lucky to have been referred to cardiology about 10 years ago. Not only would all of these details go unnoticed and worsen, but being a cardiac patient (initially only afib & aflutter) is why they kept me in emergency when I had an almost undetectable heart attack in 2018 and eventually admitted me though asymptomatic.

Without my heart history when I had the heart attack, I would have been sent home. It was only because I was hospitalized that they noticed that my #Troponin levels were rising. A subsequent angiogram revealed that I my arteries were so completely obstructed that I was on the verge of a massive heart attack. Most likely saved my life.

Happy Tuesday!

Echocardiogram

"I had a transthoracic echocardiogram on Monday 20-May, as a followup to my cardiac diagnostics. They wanted to check on that enlargement of the ascending aorta, as well as the aortic valve calcification. Short story: Everything is stable."

Continued at link

https://janetannelogan.wordpress.com/2024/05/26/echocardiogram/

#CardiacHealth #Echocardiogram #MedicalCare #spoonie

@spoonies

Turns out my “follow up appointment” yesterday was actually an appointment for an echo.

Still haven’t seen a doctor. Still don’t know what the plan is.

But I’ve had an ultrasound of my heart and it sounded pretty cool.

I’m waiting again now for what happens next.

Bacteremia with gram positive bacteria - when and how do I need to look for endocarditis?

(plot below is modification of an original, but v v helpful concept)

#endocarditis #medicine #infectiousdiseases #cardiology #microbiology #echocardiogram #MedMastodon #CTPET #bacteremia #infection
https://www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S1198-743X(23)00410-X/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email

A system using deep learning algorithms to analyze ultrasound video images is shown to detect a difficult-to diagnose type of heart failure with clips from one view of the heart.

https://sciencebusiness.technewslit.com/?p=45055

Had my quarterly echo today with a new tech. She was quite relieved to find out that I already knew I had two very different lungs. Or as she said “your left lung is big and beautiful and healthy………….pause…….”
#chemo4life #kadcyla #echocardiogram