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Severe Tricuspid Regurgitation on JVP Examination

What information about the patient do we get from this #JVP
Regurgitation on JVP ... Cardiac rhythm? ... Underlying structural heart ... #TR #Lancisis #Sign ... #Clinical #Video
Kussmaul's sign in Constrictive Pericarditis 

A 50-year-old woman with a remote history of mediastinal lymphoma (age
(video). ... There is an extra heart ... the underlying diagnosis ... Causes = RV failure ... #Clinical #Neck
Kussmaul's Sign on Physical Exam

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

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What’s the diagnosis ... inability of the right heart ... and other rarer causes ... #physicalexam #clinical ... #video #jvp #cardiology
Kussmaul's Sign on Neck Physical Examination

Elderly woman with a history of myocardial revascularization surgery is hospitalized
hospitalized for heart ... left systolic heart ... patients after cardiac ... #PhysicalExam #Video ... #Clinical #JVP
Kussmaul's #sign is the paradoxical increase or failure to fall of mean #JVP with inspiration. Commonest
Kussmaul's #sign ... fall of mean #JVP ... , severe right heart ... failure, right sided cardiac ... #PhysicalExam #clinical
Restrictive Cardiomyopathy - Diagnosis and Causes
Clinical: Dyspnea, Exercise Intolerance, ↑ "Right Sided-Symptoms" (ascites, hepatomegaly, ↑↑peripheral edema)
Physical
Cardiomyopathy - Diagnosis ... and Causes Clinical ... Physical Exam: ↑JVP ... Echocardiography, Cardiac ... Endomyocardial: Carcinoid Heart
Constrictive Pericarditis on Echocardiogram
A 55-year-old female marathon runner presents to clinic w/ 6-months of worsening breathlessness
runner presents to clinic ... 100/82, HR 74, JVP ... ASA, Kussmaul's sign ... to workup right-heart ... expiration not meeting diagnostic
Syncope is a sudden, transient loss of consciousness, which is thought to be secondary to cerebral
be divided into cardiac ... or structural heart ... orthostatic vital sign ... Further diagnostics ... should be guided by clinical
Heat Illnesses and Heat Stroke - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Heat Cramps:
 • Muscle pain or spasm -
Diagnosis Framework ... Collapse: • Pathophysiology ... → Syncope • Signs ... maintain adequate cardiac ... #causes #stroke
Portal Hypertension - Differential Diagnosis
Portal Pressure = the pressure difference between the pressure in the portal
- Differential Diagnosis ... >10 mmHg - clinically ... Post-Hepatic: • Cardiac ... causes including ... R heart failure