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Constrictive Pericarditis on POCUS Echocardiogram - Subcostal View

Young Lupus patient admitted to hospital new onset HFpEF.
Constrictive Pericarditis ... on POCUS Echocardiogram ... Also has pericardial ... effusion/pericardial ... Constrictive pericarditis-dx
Constrictive Pericarditis on POCUS Echocardiogram - Apical 3-Chamber View

Young Lupus patient admitted to hospital new onset
Constrictive Pericarditis ... on POCUS Echocardiogram ... Also has pericardial ... effusion/pericardial ... CP #POCUS #Echocardiogram
Constrictive Pericarditis on Echocardiogram

Septal Shudder, tubular LV (bullet shaped), D Cruz sign(abnormal angle between post wall
Constrictive Pericarditis ... on Echocardiogram ... halt, increased pericardial ... Echocardiogram # ... clinical #cardiology #PLAX
Constrictive Pericarditis on Echocardiogram
A 55-year-old female marathon runner presents to clinic w/ 6-months of worsening breathlessness
Constrictive Pericarditis ... on Echocardiogram ... transthoracic echocardiogram ... circumferential pericardial ... Echocardiogram #
Pathophysiology Of Constriction
Exaggerated Ventricular Interdependence:
 • Limited Cardiac Filling due to Fixed Volume → Septum Shifts
Interdependence: • Limited Cardiac ... Cessation due to Stiff Pericardium ... structures and extra- pericardial ... extra-pericardial ... pericarditis #pathophysiology
Constrictive Pericarditis on Cardiac MRI

MRI shows ventricular interdependence and re-demonstrates the thickened pericardium. 

Dr. Omid Kiamanesh
Constrictive Pericarditis ... on Cardiac MRI ... re-demonstrates the ... thickened pericardium ... #Pericarditis #
Amyloidosis on POCUS Echocardiogram - Parasternal short axis (PSAX)
Pt with systemic AL amyloidosis presents with 1
Amyloidosis on POCUS Echocardiogram ... Parasternal short axis (PSAX ... Has new large pericardial ... in addition to the ... #Cardiology #PSAX
Amyloidosis on POCUS Echocardiogram - Parasternal long axis (PLAX)
Pt with systemic AL amyloidosis presents with 1
Amyloidosis on POCUS Echocardiogram ... Has new large pericardial ... in addition to the ... amyloidosis with cardiac ... #Amyloidosis #Cardiac
Tamponade is paradoxical RV collapse during diastole. Sometimes it’s hard to tell if that’s happening by
cardiac cycle ( ... RVCollapse #MMode #Cardiac ... #Tamponade #PLAX ... #Echocardiogram ... POCUS #Clinical #Pericardial
Cardiac Tamponade on Echocardiogram in Slow Motion (PLAX)
EchoProTip: Does this patient has a potentially hemodynamically compromising
Cardiac Tamponade ... on Echocardiogram ... symptomatic large pericardial ... onco_cardiology #Cardiac ... SlowMotion #clinical #echocardiogram