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Acute Coronary Syndrome - Diagnostic Likelihood Ratios for Symptoms and Physical Examination. Source: Fanaroff AC, Rymer
Likelihood Ratios for Symptoms ... Source: Fanaroff AC ... : The Rational Clinical ... #Cardiology #ACS ... Atypical #ChestPain #Cardiac
Air gap sign: loss of cardiac image during systole in Pneumopericardium
Interesting observation –loss of cardiac window
Air gap sign: loss ... Pneumopericardium #clinical ... echocardiogram #a4c ... #plax #pocus #airgap ... #sign
Hepatopulmonary Syndrome - Diagnosis and Management Summary
A defect in arterial oxygenation due to a gas exchange
shunt (Type 2) Clinical ... left heart 3-6 cardiac ... Arterial blood gas (ABC ... no established medical ... resolution of symptoms
Constrictive Pericarditis on Echocardiogram
A 55-year-old female marathon runner presents to clinic w/ 6-months of worsening breathlessness
ASA, Kussmaul's sign ... , marked pedal edema ... expiration not meeting diagnostic ... Echocardiogram #a4c ... #pocus #clinical
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
Medical history ... event, follow ACC ... Change in clinical ... indication of AC ... stratification #diagnosis
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
association • M > F Clinical ... Medium and large ... thrombosis, VTE) • Cardiac ... Behcet syndrome (Clinical ... #management #signs
Benzodiazepine (BZD) withdrawal: clinical findings and complications

 • Activation of ACC and OFC -> Feelings of
BZD) withdrawal: clinical ... Activation of ACC ... atherosclerosis, cardiac ... pathophysiology #diagnosis ... #signs #symptoms