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Video 37-1: Echocardiographic short-axis view of a patient with acute cor-pulmonale demonstrating “reverse-Bernheim effect” wherein RV pressure or volume overload leads to septal flattening and impingement on the LV that assumes a “D” shape causing left ventricular diastolic dysfunction, further reducing systemic cardiac output and coronary perfusion pressure.

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