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Constrictive Pericarditis on POCUS Echocardiogram - Apical 3-Chamber View

Young Lupus patient admitted to hospital new onset
on POCUS Echocardiogram ... Also has pericardial ... effusion/pericardial ... Had diagnostic tap-fever ... Pericarditis #CP #POCUS #Echocardiogram
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 ... expiration not meeting diagnostic ... #Pericarditis #Echocardiogram
Hemorrhagic Pericardial Effusions (Hemopericardium)- Differential Diagnosis Framework

IATROGENIC DISEASE
Secondary to invasive cardiac procedures

NONIATROGENIC
• Malignancy (e.g., metastatic spread:
- Differential Diagnosis ... Secondary to invasive cardiac ... CAUSES • PRIMARY Cardiac ... Primary systemic amyloidosis ... Cytologic studies of the
Amyloidosis on POCUS Echocardiogram - Parasternal long axis (PLAX)
Pt with systemic AL amyloidosis presents with 1
Echocardiogram ... Has new large pericardial ... in addition to the ... with cardiac involvement ... #Cardiac #POCUS
Amyloidosis on POCUS Echocardiogram - Apical 4 Chamber (A4C)
Pt with systemic AL amyloidosis presents with 1
Echocardiogram ... Has new large pericardial ... in addition to the ... with cardiac involvement ... #Cardiac #POCUS
Amyloidosis on POCUS Echocardiogram - Subcostal 4 Chamber (S4C)
Pt with systemic AL amyloidosis presents with 1
Echocardiogram ... Has new large pericardial ... in addition to the ... with cardiac involvement ... #Cardiac #POCUS
Amyloidosis on POCUS Echocardiogram - Parasternal short axis (PSAX)
Pt with systemic AL amyloidosis presents with 1
Echocardiogram ... Has new large pericardial ... in addition to the ... with cardiac involvement ... #Cardiac #POCUS
Amyloidosis - Summary
Group of disorders associated with extracellular deposition of fibrils formed from low-molecular-weight proteins in
Diagnosis: 1. ... in AA and AL Cardiac ... Diagnostic Testing ... Amyloid typing Cardiac ... Testing: • EKG • Echocardiogram
Pericardial Tamponade in a Shock Patient

Watch how the heart collapses and struggles to beat in surrounding
Pericardial Tamponade ... Patient Watch how the ... good enough at diagnosing ... Clinical #POCUS #Echocardiogram ... #Cardiac #Tamponade
Portal Hypertension - Differential Diagnosis
Portal Pressure = the pressure difference between the pressure in the portal
- Differential Diagnosis ... Post-Hepatic: • Cardiac ... heart failure and constrictive ... Infiltrative diseases (amyloidosis ... #Differential #Diagnosis