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DR. CORNEL:
Now, this is the echocardiogram,
it doesn't reproduce that well, it's running on
a Microsoft program and it knows it. But what
we're looking at here is kind of a slice through
the heart and it's going to be moving in a second.
This is the right ventricle in the
heart, this is the left ventricle.
And at this point I had allowed
the heart to fill up somewhat with blood to get
it to do whatever it could for the purposes of
evaluation on the echo. And you will see the
contraction of the atria, which are up here, and
some movement of the right ventricle. But as we
watch the left ventricle you will see that it
moves very little at all.
Okay, so right ventricle, left
ventricle, watch the left ventricle as it comes
in and out of the picture. You see that it
really changes its size and shape very little.
These are the heart valves, the tricuspid valve
on the right and the mitral valve on the left.
They're opening and closing because the atria,
(the auricles) if you like, are doing a little
bit of work and they are moving some blood
around.
You don't see normal appearances
when on a heart-lung machine like this, but we
should see more. This is a desperate looking
heart. If we saw this in an adult after a
coronary we would know they were dead already.
We got very encouraged somewhere around this same
time. We did another EEG and it showed a
fantastic recovery.
