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Asymmetrical Tonic Neck Reflex (ATNR)

This primitive reflex found in newborn babies that normally vanishes around 4
around 4 months of age ... infant's arms and head ... #Neck #Reflex #PhysicalExam ... #clinical #video ... #Neurology #Peds
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Causes of Apparent Life Threatening Event (ALTE) - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Cardiac:
 • Congenital Heart Disease
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Causes of Apparent ... Differential Diagnosis Algorithm ... • Congenital Heart ... Arrhythmia • Cardiomyopathy ... #Causes #Peds #
Restrictive Cardiomyopathy - Diagnosis and Causes
Clinical: Dyspnea, Exercise Intolerance, ↑ "Right Sided-Symptoms" (ascites, hepatomegaly, ↑↑peripheral edema)
Physical
Diagnosis and Causes ... Clinical: Dyspnea ... Endomyocardial: Carcinoid Heart ... #differential #cardiology ... #algorithm
Kussmaul's Sign on Physical Exam

What’s the diagnosis?
Severe biventeicular failure with + Kussmaul sign! NICM. No constriction!

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inability of the right heart ... and other rarer causes ... Kussmauls #Sign #physicalexam ... #clinical #video ... #jvp #cardiology
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Peripartum Cardiomyopathy - Summary
1. Definition
 • Towards the end of pregnancy to 5 months postpartum
exclude other causes ... ) • Valvular heart ... pregnancy, maternal age ... teratogenic GDMT meds ... diagnosis #management #cardiology
Kussmaul's #sign is the paradoxical increase or failure to fall of mean #JVP with inspiration. Commonest
Commonest cause ... Constriction, restrictive cardiomyopathy ... , severe right heart ... #Kussmauls #PhysicalExam ... #clinical #cardiology
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Kussmaul's sign in Constrictive Pericarditis 

A 50-year-old woman with a remote history of mediastinal lymphoma (age
There is an extra heart ... Causes = RV failure ... Kussmauls #Sign #PhysicalExam ... #Video #Clinical ... Pericarditis #Cardiology
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Peripartum Cardiomyopathy (PPCM)

What is PPCM?
• A form of acute systolic heart failure that develops late in
Advanced maternal age ... Cesarean delivery Clinical ... Key Point: High clinical ... (PPCM) is caused ... #Cardiology #OBGyn
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
a) Ischemic heart ... event, follow ACC algorithm ... Change in clinical ... Cataract Plan for Meds ... one post op Cardiology