9 results
What's the Dx?
• 29-year-old male 
• Transfer community hospital 
• Hypotension
• Renal failure
• Altered mental status.
demonstrate a mobile mitral ... vegetation secondary to endocarditis ... appreciated by applying color ... #Clinical #POCUS ... PLAX #Infective #Endocarditis
Endocarditis Summary

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV substance use
• IV catheter
• Recent
Involves aortic and mitral ... Differential Diagnosis ... Diagnosis? ... -> TEE • Duke Criteria ... Regurgitation • Colon
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)
Diagnostic Criteria (The "Budapest Criteria"):
 • Persistent pain out of proportion to
Criteria (The " ... , and physical signs ... Temperature and/or skin color ... Clinical Features ... jerking, Edema, Skin color
Constrictive Pericarditis on Echocardiogram
A 55-year-old female marathon runner presents to clinic w/ 6-months of worsening breathlessness
ASA, Kussmaul's sign ... , (B) a septal mitral ... expiration not meeting diagnostic ... criteria (D) a ... Echocardiogram #a4c #pocus
Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO) - Clinical Manifestations
 • Optic neuritis: Reduced visual acuity, ranging from mild to
Optica (NMO) - Clinical ... mild to severe, Colour ... Manifestations #diagnosis ... #neurology #symptoms ... #signs
Colon Ischemia - Diagnosis Algorithm
Mild disease - Typical symptoms of Cl with none of the associated
Colon Ischemia - ... disease - Typical symptoms ... than three of the criteria ... following: peritoneal signs ... colonoscopy or CT #Colon
Endocarditis - Overview and Differential Diagnosis Framework

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV
and Differential Diagnosis ... involves aortic and mitral ... → TEE • Duke Criteria ... Regurgitation • Colon ... #Differential #Diagnosis
Marantic Endocarditis 

Epidemiology:
 - Incidence of non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis (marantic endocarditis if associated with cancer) is
patients with no signs ... /syrnptoms of embolic ... Clinical Findings ... vegetations on mitral ... #Diagnosis #Management
Small Bowel Obstruction
67 y/o M with PMH colon cancer s/p resection and colostomy, multiple SBO managed
y/o M with PMH colon ... diagnosis of SBO ... You do not see signs ... : 9.55 for clinical ... Emergency Medicine #Clinical