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Kussmaul's Sign on Physical Exam

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

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Kussmaul's Sign ... What’s the diagnosis ... and other rarer causes ... physicalexam #clinical #video ... #jvp #cardiology
Kussmaul's sign in Constrictive Pericarditis 

A 50-year-old woman with a remote history of mediastinal lymphoma (age
(video). ... the underlying diagnosis ... Causes = RV failure ... #PhysicalExam #Video ... Pericarditis #Cardiology
Kussmaul's Sign and Friedreich's Sign on Neck Examination

A middle-aged M with unknown PMH presents with dyspnea.
demonstrated in the video ... Most likely diagnosis ... the underlying cause ... Kussmaul's (JVP ... #Cardiology
Kussmaul's Sign - Differential Diagnosis

Typically the JVP decreases with inspiration as the negative intrathoracic pressure "sucks
- Differential Diagnosis ... Typically the JVP ... or increase in JVP ... #cardiology #differential ... #causes
Kussmaul’s sign on Physical Exam

20/F, diagnosed as lupus based on polyserositis and a weak ANA. 

#Kussmauls
Kussmaul’s sign ... Exam 20/F, diagnosed ... #Kussmauls #sign ... PhysicalExam #clinical #video ... #JVP #cardiology
Giant A waves caused by pulmonary HTN. There are two clearly discernible descents (X and Y)
Giant A waves caused ... because she also has Kussmaul's ... the underlying diagnosis ... PhysicalExam #Clinical #Video ... #Cardiology
Cannon A Waves
 • Caused by atrial contracting against a closed tricuspid valve
 • Atrioventricular dissociation
Cannon A Waves • Caused ... Atrioventricular dissociation ... it indicates AV dissociation ... Cannon #AWaves #diagnosis ... #cardiology #CVP
Cannon A Waves on Neck Examination

Cannon a waves! Notice that it occurs randomly, not predictably w/
waves indicate AV dissociation ... block, or, as this case ... #PhysicalExam #JVP ... #Clinical #Video ... #Cardiology
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 MRI ... #cardiology #algorithm
Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS)
(aka: Landry–Guillain–Barré–Strohl syndrome:
	Most common cause of acute flaccid paralysis
	Rapidly progressive ascending paralysis & areflexia
	Autonomic
 Most common cause ... albumin-cytologic dissociation ... Differential diagnosis ...  West Nile virus ... cord lesion on MRI