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POCUS Pearls for Tamponade
- Pericardial Effusion
- Diastolic Right Ventricular Collapse
- Systolic Right Atrial Collapse
- Plethoric Inferior
- Pericardial Effusion ... Collapse - Plethoric Inferior ... Tamponade #POCUS #Diagnosis ... Evaluation #Cardiology #Effusion ... #Echocardiogram
Constrictive Pericarditis on Echocardiogram
A 55-year-old female marathon runner presents to clinic w/ 6-months of worsening breathlessness
Pericarditis on Echocardiogram ... transthoracic echocardiogram ... circumferential pericardial effusion ... (A) a dilated inferior ... expiration not meeting diagnostic
Hemopericardium on POCUS Echocardiogram - Subcostal View

Valentine's day.  Shot through the heart--but not by Cupid.
Hemopericardium on POCUS Echocardiogram ... Diagnosis? ... Hemopericardium #POCUS #Echocardiogram ... #S4C #clinical ... #Pericardial #Effusion
Mediastinal Widening - Differential Diagnosis

 • Vascular: Aortic dissection, Aortic anourysm, Enlarged pulmonary arteries, Venous or
- Differential Diagnosis ... ex: duplicated SVC ... mass • Masses: Anterior ... Pneumomediastinum, Pericardial effusion ... #Differential #Diagnosis
LVOTO due to SAM on POCUS Echocardiogram

Septic patient after IV fluids and initiation of Levophed. Worsening
to SAM on POCUS Echocardiogram ... Diagnosis? ... Management? ... #Systolic #Anterior ... #HOCM #POCUS #Echocardiogram
Constrictive Pericarditis on POCUS Echocardiogram - Apical 3-Chamber View

Young Lupus patient admitted to hospital new onset
Pericarditis on POCUS Echocardiogram ... you see on this SC ... has pericardial effusion ... with similar peri effusion ... Had diagnostic tap-fever
Myocarditis
Diagnosis 
• Endomyocardial biopsy (gold standard, rarely performed) 
• Clinical presentation 
• Cardiovascular MRI 
Clinical 
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Myocarditis Diagnosis ... tachycardia • S3, S4 ... Abnormal ECG, echocardiogram ... cardiac death Management ... #Management #Cardiology
Malignant Pericardial Effusion causing Cardiac Tamponade on Echocardiogram (A4c)
Hypotensive + respiratory distress. At first glance you
Malignant Pericardial Effusion ... Cardiac Tamponade on Echocardiogram ... see how the effusion ... is quite anterior ... #echocardiogram
RV wall perforation from pacer wire on POCUS

Patient with severe chest pain since last night. SC
no pericardial effusion ... Diagnosis: RV wall ... Pacemaker #POCUS #echocardiogram ... #clinical #s4c ... #effusion #pericardial
Right heart dysfunction and failure in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: mechanisms and management 
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mechanisms and management ... area change; IVC, inferior ... #Diagnosis #Cardiology ... #Echocardiogram