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Gadolinium Enhancement Patterns in Ischemic and Non-Ischemic Cardiomyopathies
Ischemic:
 • Subendocardial Infarct
 • Transmural Infarct
Non-Ischemic:
 • Mid-wall
- Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy ... e.g.congenital heart ... Hyper-Enhancement: Amyloidosis ... sclerosis, post-cardiac ... #radiology
Amyloidosis Diagnosis
1) Patient presentation
 • Cardiac-specific signs of amyloidosis: Diastolic heart failure, Heart failure with preserved
presentation • Cardiac-specific ... failure, Heart ... , Infiltrative cardiomyopathy ... detection • For cardiac-specific ... #Diagnosis #cardiology
Restrictive Cardiomyopathy - Diagnosis and Causes
Clinical: Dyspnea, Exercise Intolerance, ↑ "Right Sided-Symptoms" (ascites, hepatomegaly, ↑↑peripheral edema)
Physical
Diagnosis and Causes Clinical ... Echocardiography, Cardiac ... MRI, Cardiac Catheterization ... Infiltrative: Amyloidosis ... Endomyocardial: Carcinoid Heart
Cardiac Amyloid - Diagnosis, Signs, Symptoms and Management

Clinical Presentation
- exertional dyspnea
- peripheral edema
- exertional syncope
- peripheral
Cardiac Amyloid ... Clinical Presentation ... despite hx HTN) EKG ... cardionerds #Amyloidosis ... #Cardiac #Diagnosis
Myocardial Injury Classification
Chronic myocardial injury: Chronic heart failure, Cardiomyopathy, Hypertension, CKD/ESRD
Acute nonischemic myocardial injury:
 - Primary
injury: Chronic heart ... failure, Cardiomyopathy ... injury: - Primary cardiac ... - Primary non-cardiac ... illness: Critical
Cardiomyopathies 

Manifestations of cardiomyopathy (CM) range from microscopic alterations in cardiac myocytes to fulminant Heart Failure
alterations in cardiac ... myocytes to fulminant Heart ... accumulation, & cardiac ... Infiltrative (Amyloidosis ... Cardiomyopathies #cardiology
Amyloidosis on POCUS Echocardiogram - Apical 4 Chamber (A4C)
Pt with systemic AL amyloidosis presents with 1
appearance of heart ... with cardiac involvement ... #Cardiac #POCUS ... #clinical #Echocardiogram ... #Cardiology #A4C
Cardiac Amyloidosis Management
The liver produces transthyretin tetramers, which dissociate into monomers and mis-fold, then aggregate into
Cardiac Amyloidosis ... and deposit into cardiac ... Cardiac amyloidosis ... PharmD @yeeann_c #Cardiac ... #Amyloidosis #Management
Amyloidosis - Summary
Group of disorders associated with extracellular deposition of fibrils formed from low-molecular-weight proteins in
Clinical suspicion ... in AA and AL Cardiac ... Amyloid typing Cardiac ... Testing: • EKG ... • MRI of the heart
Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy on POCUS

78 year old woman - Acute delirium but complaining of chest pain 
ECG:
Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy ... of chest pain ECG ... chest leads Cardiac ... POCUS #Ultrasound #Clinical ... Echocardiogram #Cardiology