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Cardiac Amyloid - Diagnosis, Signs, Symptoms and Management

Clinical Presentation
- exertional dyspnea
- peripheral edema
- exertional syncope
- peripheral
Cardiac Amyloid ... - Diagnosis, Signs ... Clinical Presentation ... hepatomegaly - normal ... precordial leads) - atrial
Cardiac incisura
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On the right side of the chest the lung will lie against
Cardiac incisura ... It is a normal finding ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #Lateral # ... #RadiologyAssistant
Diffuse consolidation
The most common cause of diffuse consolidation is pulmonary edema due to heart failure.
This is
have an acute cardiac ... may still have a normal ... #Diagnosis #Radiology ... #Pulmonary #CXR ... #Differential #RadiologyAssistant
Myocarditis
Diagnosis 
• Endomyocardial biopsy (gold standard, rarely performed) 
• Clinical presentation 
• Cardiovascular MRI 
Clinical 
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Myocarditis Diagnosis ... performed) • Clinical ... summation gallop • Abnormal ... shock, sudden cardiac ... #Management #Cardiology
Amyloidosis on POCUS Echocardiogram - Apical 4 Chamber (A4C)
Pt with systemic AL amyloidosis presents with 1
thickening and biatrial ... appearance of heart on CXR ... #POCUS #clinical ... Echocardiogram #Cardiology ... #A4C
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On a chest film only the outer contours of the heart are seen.
In many cases we
heart figure is normal ... #Anatomy #Radiology ... #CXR #Atrium #Ventricle ... #Cardiac #Chambers ... #RadiologyAssistant
On the left a patient with ARDS. 
There is alveolar edema in both lungs. 
Notice that
that the VPW is normal ... dilated and the cardiac ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #ARDS #Alveolar ... #Edema #RadiologyAssistant
Myocarditis 

5 Principles of
Myocarditis:
1. Build clinical suspicion
2. Decide on EMBx
3. Manage acute cardiac injury
4. Manage chronic
Build clinical suspicion ... Manage acute cardiac ... agent, steroids, AC ... #Myocarditis #diagnosis ... #management #cardiology
Hepatopulmonary Syndrome - Diagnosis and Management Summary
A defect in arterial oxygenation due to a gas exchange
and Management ... shunt (Type 2) Clinical ... left heart 3-6 cardiac ... cycles after right atrial ... blood gas (ABC)
Notice that there are multiple densities in both lungs.
The larger ones are ill-defined and maybe there
the differential diagnosis ... lab-findings were normal ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #Peripheral ... OrganizingPneumonia #BOOP #RadiologyAssistant