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Causes of Diastolic Murmurs - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Early Diastolic:
 • Aortic Regurgitation
 • Pulmonary Regurgitation (Graham-Steell
Causes of Diastolic ... Murmurs - Differential ... Flint Murmur) • Atrial ... Diastolic #Murmurs #Cardiology ... #Differential #
Primary and Secondary Causes of Mitral Regurgitation
Primary (organic) chronic mitral regurgitation:
 • Leaflet: Rheumatic fever, Infective
Primary and Secondary ... Causes of Mitral ... Ehlers-Danlos), Congenital ... #differential #diagnosis ... #cardiology #causes
Causes of mitral stenosis
Rheumatic heart disease
 - Most common cause worldwide. Commissural fusion, thick MV leaflets
Causes of mitral ... kidney disease Congenital ... vegetations)/tumor (left atrial ... #diagnosis #differential ... #cardiology
Causes of Primary and Functional Mitral Regurgitation (MR) 
Causes of primary mitral regurgitation
 - Rheumatic heart
Mitral Regurgitation ... plane into left atrium ... inferior wall - Congenital ... mitral regurgitation ... #Mitral #Regurgitation
Widened Pulse Pressure - Differential Diagnosis and Pathophysiology

Pulse pressure is the difference between the systolic blood
Pulse Pressure - Differential ... Physiologic Causes ... Endocarditis • Mitral ... • Mitral Stenosis ... #cardiology
Quadricuspid Aortic Valve on Cardiac MRI with Severe Aortic Regurgitation
54 yo/ severe aortic regurgitation.  CMR
Severe Aortic Regurgitation ... CMR showing quadricuspid ... non-coronary cusps ... , and partial fusion ... CardiacMRI #clinical #cardiology
Causes of Severe Aortic Regurgitation - Differential Diagnosis
Acute:
 • Leaflet: Traumatic Rupture, Acute Infective Endocarditis, Acute
Causes of Severe ... - Differential ... Quadricuspid AoV, Congenital ... Aortic Aneurysms and ... #cardiology
Mediastinal Widening - Differential Diagnosis

 • Vascular: Aortic dissection, Aortic anourysm, Enlarged pulmonary arteries, Venous or
arteries, Venous or arterial ... great vessel congential ... Nodule / mass • Masses ... Pericardial effusion • CXR ... Diagnosis #pulmonary #radiology
Palpitations - Differential Diagnosis Framework

What?
• It is an unpleasant awareness or sensation that the heart is
Palpitations - Differential ... heart failure • Mitral ... stenosis) • Severe mitral ... regurgitation ... #Differential #
Double Orifice Mitral Valve in a young M w/ chest pain. Rare congenital anomaly of subvalvular
Rare congenital ... can result in regurgitation ... sinus venosus ASD ... , PDA, other congenital ... MitralValve #clinical #cardiology