UMEM Educational Pearls

Category: Visual Diagnosis

Title: What's the Diagnosis?

Posted: 4/20/2015 by Haney Mallemat, MD
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You see the following on a parasternal long-axis view; what's the diagnosis and what coronary distribution is involved?

Severe hypokinesis with anterioseptal wall motion abnormality.

A: Anteroseptal wall (perfused by left anterior descending)
B: Inferolateral wall (perfused by left circulmflex artery and variable contributions from posterior descending artery)
Click on the links to read more about cardiac wall segments and their coronary distribution
- Parasternal view and Apical four chamber view

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