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Constrictive Pericarditis on POCUS Echocardiogram - Apical 3-Chamber View

Young Lupus patient admitted to hospital new onset
on POCUS Echocardiogram ... Lupus pericarditis ... Had diagnostic tap-fever ... #CP #POCUS #Echocardiogram ... #clinical #cardiology
Constrictive Pericarditis on Echocardiogram
A 55-year-old female marathon runner presents to clinic w/ 6-months of worsening breathlessness
on Echocardiogram ... runner presents to clinic ... , Kussmaul's sign ... expiration not meeting diagnostic ... #a4c #pocus #clinical
EULAR/ACR Classification Criteria for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Clinical Domains:
 • Constitutional domain: Fever
 • Cutaneous domain: Non-scarring
EULAR/ACR Classification ... Erythematosus Clinical ... least 2 joints • Neurologic ... effusion, Acute pericarditis ... Erythematosus #diagnosis
Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO) - Clinical Manifestations
 • Optic neuritis: Reduced visual acuity, ranging from mild to
Optica (NMO) - Clinical ... desaturation, Scotoma, Ocular ... disorders (Systemic lupus ... #neurology #symptoms ... #signs
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
association • M > F Clinical ... skin injury) • Neurologic ... Cardiac Disease: Pericarditis ... Behcet syndrome (Clinical ... #management #signs
Constrictive Pericarditis on Echocardiogram

Patient was referred to cardiology for evaluation of dyspnea. JVP was enough to
Constrictive Pericarditis ... on Echocardiogram ... was enough to diagnose ... Kussmaul’s sign ... #POCUS #clinical
SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)

Suspect:
Clinical evidence of (fatigue, rash, photosensitivity, inflammatory arthritis, weight loss, and fever) and
) Suspect: Clinical ... Erythematous, macular ... Differential Diagnosis ... CNS • Headache ... • Asymptomatic pericarditis
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
Rheumatologic symptoms • Pericarditis ... has five major clinical ... fungal stain of clinical ... MC: CNS CSF: • ... osteoarticular, pulmonary, ocular