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Brugada Syndrome - Type 1

Little things make me happy. 
Guy comes in with presyncope. Brother died
Brugada Syndrome ... Brother died of “heart ... Get an ECG. ... NoobieMatt #Brugada #Syndrome ... #EKG #ECG #Clinical
Myocarditis
Diagnosis 
• Endomyocardial biopsy (gold standard, rarely performed) 
• Clinical presentation 
• Cardiovascular MRI 
Clinical 
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performed) • Clinical ... Cardiovascular MRI Clinical ... gallop • Abnormal ECG ... shock, sudden cardiac ... death Management
Mesenteric Ischemia - Differential Diagnostic Schema
Chronic: ASCVD, Venous, Vasculitides 5% (PAN, [E]GPA, IgA, MPA)
Acute
 - Venous
inflammation (e.g ... Thrombus / Embolism: Cardiac ... Antiphospholipid syndrome ... strangulation), Heart ... /Vessels (Heart
Causes of Thrombocytopenia - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
 
Decreased Megakaryopoiesis
 • Aplastic Anemia
 • Toxic Damage (e.g.
Toxic Damage (e.g ... Displacement (e.g ... Non-lmmune: • HELLP Syndrome ... Foreign Surface (e.g ... Prosthetic Heart
Causes of Peripheral Edema - Differential Diagnosis
Increased Hydrostatic Pressure
 • Volume Expansion: Kidney failure, Pregnancy, Medication
Medication side effect (e.g ... Acute salt load, Heart ... Insufficiency: Heart ... Cirrhosis, Nephrotic syndrome ... • Filariasis (e.g
Evaluation of mechanical valves of Total Artificial Heart with no contrast
This is a cardiac CT with
Total Artificial Heart ... contrast This is a cardiac ... , we ECG-gated with ... an ECG simulator ... CardiacCT #CCTA #CTS #clinical
Hyponatremia - Differential Diagnosis by Mechanism
Decr Blood Pressure (“Decr Effective Circulating Volume”) 
 - Volume depletion
depletion - Heart ... - Cirrhosis Syndrome ... - Malignancy (e.g ... CNS pathology (e.g ... Pulmonary pathology (e.g
Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) is an abnormally fast heart rhythm arising from improper electrical activity in upper
abnormally fast heart ... upper part of the heart ... Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome ... #Clinical #MedStudent ... #Cardiology #EKG
Approach to ECGs - Syncope Syndromes
Electrolytes
 • ↑K - brady, peak T, wide QRS, no P,
Approach to ECGs ... - Syncope Syndromes ... below), 1st degree heart ... #ECG #EKG #Checklist ... electrocardiogram #differential
Endocarditis checklist
Initial evaluation
 • Peripheral blood cultures (three sets at three different sites)
 • Additional culture
if suspected (e.g ... fistula causing heart ... telemetry for heart ... block (+/- daily EKG ... of infection (e.g