D'Cruz Ivan A, Khouzam Rami N, Minderman Daniel P, Munir Ahmad
University of Tennessee Health Science Center and Memphis VA Medical Center, 1030 Jefferson Avenue, Memphis, TN 38104, USA.
Echocardiography. 2006 Oct;23(9):803-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2006.00316.x.
The echocardiographic literature contains very scant reference to incompetence of the valve in the internal jugular vein. However, we found frequent Doppler evidence of such incompetence, especially in patients with congestive failure. This incompetence manifests as a variety of color Doppler and pulsed Doppler patterns, illustrated here in 3 patients.