I am a nephrologist and hypertension specialist. As a clinician educator, I focus on point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS), with a particular emphasis on Doppler-assisted hemodynamic assessment. The inception of this blog was aimed at compiling all the POCUS images I shared on Twitter (@NephroP), along with sharing interesting cases and articles related to POCUS. I'm thrilled to see it grow organically, driven by the increasing interest in POCUS across multiple specialties.
PubMed link to my publications: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=abhilash+koratala&sort=date
Though transesophageal echocardiography is required in most patients suspected to have infective endocarditis because of better sensitivity, valvular vegetations can be seen on a transthoracic echocardiogram, especially when large. It […]
A young woman presented with abdominal pain that did not get better with empiric antibiotic therapy for presumed urinary tract infection. Renal sonogram revealed bilateral mild to moderate hydronephrosis. There […]
We have previously talked about ureteral jets and the twinkle artefact. Here is an excellent clip shared by Dr. Robert Jones demonstrating twinkle artefact in the right distal ureter region […]
Nephrology was consulted for acute kidney injury and hypervolemia in a chronically ill nursing home resident. You decide to perform lung POCUS to assess extravascular lung water. Multiple B-lines per […]
The slides below outline key steps for getting a POCUS program off the ground. First and foremost, faculty need to build confidence and skill in common POCUS applications. This comes […]
A few years after launching our POCUS program, we published a proposed model curriculum in 2019, drawing on our early experience and outlining suggested scan numbers for minimum competency in […]
Here are the chest ultrasound images from a cardiac surgery patient. They were obtained from the sternal area and represent comet tail artefacts from sternal wires. They look like B-lines […]
Here is a renal sonogram obtained from an elderly woman demonstrating bilateral hydronephrosis as well as a heterogeneous mass encasing the left kidney. CT scan of the abdomen included for […]
Sometimes, pleural effusion may be noticed incidentally on abdominal scans. Below image shows transverse section of the liver with anechoic area in the posterior aspect, which corresponds to right lung/pleural […]
While scanning urinary bladder in women, we may occasionally encounter sonographic findings suggestive of pregnancy. The earliest definitive evidence of pregnancy visible on ultrasonography (typically endovaginal) is the gestational sac […]
