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Constrictive Pericarditis on POCUS Echocardiogram - Apical 3-Chamber View

Young Lupus patient admitted to hospital new onset
on POCUS Echocardiogram ... on this SC image ... Also has pericardial ... effusion/pericardial ... Had diagnostic tap-fever
Constrictive Pericarditis on Echocardiogram
A 55-year-old female marathon runner presents to clinic w/ 6-months of worsening breathlessness
on Echocardiogram ... transthoracic echocardiogram ... circumferential pericardial ... velocity of 9.5 cm/sec ... expiration not meeting diagnostic
Amyloidosis on POCUS Echocardiogram - Subcostal 4 Chamber (S4C)
Pt with systemic AL amyloidosis presents with 1
Subcostal 4 Chamber (S4C ... thickening and biatrial ... Has new large pericardial ... in addition to the ... #Cardiology #S4C
Portopulmonary Hypertension
Presence of pulmonary arterial hypertension in a patient with portal hypertension
No other obvious causes (chronic
Presence of pulmonary arterial ... Transthoracic echocardiogram ... ventricular size, Right atrial ... receptors, blocking the ... guanylate cyclase (sGC
Atrial Fibrillation (A-Fib) Summary

Symptoms:
• Palpitations, light-headedness, dizziness, dyspnea, exercise intolerance, chest pain, near-syncope, syncope.

Why?
Cardiac:
	• Valvular heart
Cardiac: • Valvular ... ventricles; to detect ... ventricular hypertrophy, pericardial ... preferred • Direct ... Fibrillation #AFib #diagnosis
Amyloidosis on POCUS Echocardiogram - Apical 4 Chamber (A4C)
Pt with systemic AL amyloidosis presents with 1
Amyloidosis on POCUS Echocardiogram ... thickening and biatrial ... Has new large pericardial ... in addition to the ... #Amyloidosis #Cardiac
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes - OnePager Summary
Autoimmune ANCA vasculitis (AAV): GPA (granulomatous with polyangiitis), EGPA (eosinophilic granulomatosis
feature, PRS can affect ... nose deformity • Cardiac ... (UPC) ratio • Cardiac ... o infection • Echocardiogram ... EGPA (↓ LVEF, pericardial
Right Heart Catheterization - Pulmonary Artery Pressures and Calculations
PULMONARY VASCULAR RESISTANCE = (meanPAP-PCWP) / CO
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CARDIAC POWER OUTPUT ... SHOCK trial registry ... Increases in RAP or pericardial ... much as 40% in cardiac ... artery #catheter #diagnosis
Amyloidosis - Summary
Group of disorders associated with extracellular deposition of fibrils formed from low-molecular-weight proteins in
Proteinuria • Can detect ... in AA and AL Cardiac ... Amyloid typing Cardiac ... Testing: • EKG • Echocardiogram ... disproportionate atrial
Cardiac Tamponade on Echocardiogram in Slow Motion (PLAX)
EchoProTip: Does this patient has a potentially hemodynamically compromising
Cardiac Tamponade ... on Echocardiogram ... Clinical diagnosis ... symptomatic large pericardial ... is a tap not to defer