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krrush1
I love these medical gifs!!! More please. (Maybe in a lesser amount of gifs lol)
WellThatsRetarded
Damn, your gifs are all over the place. Cool story though.
cursory825
I have never seen an echocardiogram/TEE gif on imgur before, +1 for being relevant to my line of work.
Verpelican
But the mitral valve is a bicuspid valve... also, wouldnt that size of catheter massively increase blood pressure going into the heart?
OnlyTheReactionGifOfElijahWoodSayingTerrific
Tomadzo
Does this mean I can go back to eating only cheeseburgers?
CommentDiver
M3turbo
NotRonald
Bitch.
Coko4
Not sure why the gifs switch from mitral to tricuspid halfway through but this is cool. Has been used for aortic valves for quite a while.
Hyero
"minimally invasive" they say, as it's a catheter that goes inside of your heart.
canadiantimberwolf
As compared to cutting your fucking chest open? I'd say that's a step in the right direction
JewishUnicorn
You really couldn't post this in one gif?
Glumerlink
oh fuck my school was the one who developed this!
SSlack
I feel like the surgery would be like literally picking a lock.
Nalianna
like picking a lock that's moving, and if you fuck up, someone dies.
ButchKween
ChordsofBilroth
Very neat concept, but the way they use "mitral" and "tricuspid" interchangeably when they different valves both irks me & gives me doubts.
canadiantimberwolf
Same, these videos can oversimplify or mislead pretty often. But the concept seems solid. It was only a matter of time before we find 1/2
canadiantimberwolf
Decent alternatives to invasive and life threatening open heart surgery. Hopefully noninvasive valve replacements are in the near future 2/2
Dinodood2
I will have to have this someday. Cool to see I won't have a massive scar or have as long of a recovery.
JennaLS
I find all these new less invasive procedures fascinating as hell
KenjiKurokawa
Thispostisaboutacat
I like how there's this awesome post and then it's followed up by a gif of Velma tied up in a porn.
AzzyBedlam
That is the weirdest butthole I've ever seen.
eclect0
Wow. My daughter has two abnormal valves that will probably eventually have to be replaced. It's awesome to see potential alternatives.
TinyKhaleesi
AFAIK, valve replacement via catheter and not open-heart is already a thing! Minimally invasive is always the goal.
eclect0
Her valves are stenotic though, not leaky, so I don't know if this specific treatment would work.
zechor
If the stenosis is in the tube and not the flap then they could do something similar and stretch it over time?
SubterraneanAnimism
Open heart can be a bit intimidating, but the success rate for valve replacements are extremely high. This would not work for valve stenosis
SubterraneanAnimism
I'm throwing a comment into the abyss here, but this would only work for very specific cases that aren't seen THAT often. Most of the (1/?)
SubterraneanAnimism
time people have a leaky valves due to stenosis (calcium build up on valves) and they cannot close properly. The tried and true fix is (2/?)
SubterraneanAnimism
to completely cut out the valve and replace it with a synthetic valve made from pig or cow pericardial tissue. The success rate is (3/?)
SubterraneanAnimism
very high. For high risk patients they did develop a minimally invasive procedure called TAVR, but studies show much lower success rates.
YsgramorsSoupSpoon
kosherwaffle
Sitting here in a hospital bed after an aortic valve replace open heart surgery. Knowing I'll never need open heart surgery to repair (1/2)
kosherwaffle
(2/2) my inevitably one day calcified new tissue valve is mind blowing and something I am so thankful for. This is amazing.
canadiantimberwolf
I don't want to burst your bubble, but the high pressure aortic valve is probably too much to handle with this method at the moment
kosherwaffle
Doctors have already began these procedures on select patients. expected to be an optimal procedure within the next 5-10 years.
canadiantimberwolf
Really? Well in that case I'm glad to be wrong. Pretty amazing how fast these procedures can be adapted
TheRealLordPickle
If only you could of broken that up into a few more GIFs.
CHess217
First time Ive ever heard this
NotU
Seriously! I scrolled down in the hopes of a link.
OshyuOshyu18
Source?
tiespiderman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0q5zH1SHw4 video and commentary, but no words on screen so its source-ish
Andilee
Can this be done on dogs? Cavaliers have this issues pretty badly 50% by age 5 and all by age 10 for the most part.
zechor
No reason they can't, but it would be pretty expensive especially since it is currently experimental.
Andilee
Some people would make pay it. Some cavaliers don't make it to 3 years of age due to this issue. They're an expensive dog.
browsib
Isn't a catheter something they put in your urethra?
Coko4
That would be a urinary catheter, a catheter is basically just a tube put into an opening (i.e. in this case the aorta for mitral)
PianoMan2112
Even when you get an IV, when they insert the needle & remove the metal part & leave the plastic part, that's a catheter.
LimeMime565
Ohhhhhhhh. I learnded sumthin tuday
Gryphacus
These gifs are really horribly cut. Why would you not just make it one or two?
zechor
The video to gif thingy has a maximum of 15 seconds.
bingopajamas
So you made them all six seconds?
italkcrazytalk
I just wanted to let you know this comment brought me joy and a hardy chuckle.
silentbob62
Why not post the source?
zechor
Someone else found a better source and posted it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0q5zH1SHw4
Gryphacus
Okay, but still. There are way better places to cut a gif than halfway through a scene transition. Sorry if I'm being a dick.
valen00
no, you aren't it's just shoddy workmanship, dude should take pride in his gifs
zechor
I tried to cut them so that there was one set of text per gif, the imgur tool was less precise than expected. I will do better next time.
Gryphacus
I forgive you.
TheRictusGrin
I don't know what the hell is going on in the most wonderful way.
sunfried
This is kind of difficult to watch since you have to view it a couple times to pick up the starting point of the gif.
Snooj
Don't bullshit a bullshitter.
ironhippo
Oh Carol
nnugles
#7 is a transesophageal echocardiogram. The turbulent flow shooting to top right is the leak. In the later half of the gif, no more leaky.
overworkeddad
Oh that. Yeah I thought that's what it was doing...
BeefyWeefs
Looks like it tightens the wall around the valve so that it will stop all of the blood each time the valve closes.
zechor
leaky heart stops leaking without cutty cutty
gingen
Well said
11a11a2b
Thx
sexyGandalf12
But can it fix my dead cold heart
AwardWinningName
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BvE1jk1CMAES1CN.jpg
LittleBallsOfSunshineInABag
Best TLDR :D
Angatita
I just bust out laughing in my anatomy class. Thanks a lot.
Angatita
Burst**
mydailydoseofantidepressantsisyourbooty
Your heart receives blood into a compartment called the right atrium. It then pushes the blood to the left ventricle through a "valve" (1)
mydailydoseofantidepressantsisyourbooty
Correction, right ventricle! Not left ventricle
canadiantimberwolf
"Right" ventricle
mydailydoseofantidepressantsisyourbooty
Correct, thanks. Lapse of though and put the wrong side!
mydailydoseofantidepressantsisyourbooty
The valve is essentially a flap that opens when the heart squeezes and closes when the heart relaxes. After the right ventricle pumps it (2)
mydailydoseofantidepressantsisyourbooty
The blood goes to the lungs to get oxygen then comes back to the heart at the left atrium. Here it gets pumped into the left ventricle (3)
mydailydoseofantidepressantsisyourbooty
Through the mitral valve. The left ventricle is the strongest ventricle and VERY important because it is responsible for pumping (4)
mydailydoseofantidepressantsisyourbooty
Blood to the rest of your body. If you have a "leaky" mitral valve, you get flow of blood back into the atrium leading to a bunch of (5)