Endocarditis and COVID‐19 may initially be difficult to distinguish!

Echo plays an instrumental role in differentiating COVID‐19 and valvular disease.

Congrats Muhamed Saric and colleagues on a beautiful and informative paper! doi.org/10.1111/echo.1…

American Society of Echocardiography #echofirst Echocardiography

Barlow's Mitral Valve + Tricuspid Prolapse

How often do you see both?

American Society of Echocardiography #echofirst Muhamed Saric RTHahnMD Roberto M Lang Linda Gillam MD, MPH, MACC, FASE, FAHA, FESC Omar Khalique Nadeen N. Faza, M.D. Denisa Muraru Luigi European Society of Cardiology American College of Cardiology Madeline Jankowski

Congrats! You are a star echocardiographer!

PART 2: Massive vegetation of AACEK/HACEK endocarditis with perforation of intervalvular fibrosa. Complication of aortic root abscess in a patient with mechanical prosthesis. #echofirst American Society of Echocardiography #ASEiECHOSIG Alan Vainrib Stephen Little, MD RTHahnMD Nishath Quader, MD G. Burkhard Mackensen

Massive vegetation of AACEK (previously HACEK) endocarditis with perforation of intervalvular fibrosa. Complication of aortic root abscess in a patient with mechanical prosthesis. #echofirst American Society of Echocardiography #ASEiECHOSIG Alan Vainrib Stephen Little, MD RTHahnMD Nishath Quader, MD G. Burkhard Mackensen

Got the covid-19 vaccine!
So grateful to Pfizer, the great 🇺🇸 American company for manufacting it, to the 🇩🇪🇹🇷 German-Turkish couple for pioneering it and to the NYU/Bellevue health system for administering it so quickly!

Test my first tweet.