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Portal Hypertension - Differential Diagnosis
Portal Pressure = the pressure difference between the pressure in the portal
Hypertension - Differential ... portal vein and IVC ... >10 mmHg - clinically ... Post-Hepatic: • Cardiac ... #Diagnosis #causes
Major neurocognitive disorders (MNCD): Diagnosis and workup 

1) Clinical diagnosis Cognitive impairment + loss of autonomy
2)
workup 1) Clinical ... (parkinsonian signs ... Frontal atrophy Vascular ... MNCD #Dementia #Differential ... #Subtypes #Classification
Kussmaul's #sign is the paradoxical increase or failure to fall of mean #JVP with inspiration. Commonest
Kussmaul's #sign ... failure, right sided cardiac ... SVC obstruction ... #PhysicalExam #clinical ... #cardiology
Causes of Lactate Elevation, Lactic Acidosis - Differential Diagnosis

The most common causes of hyperlactatemia are usually:
Lactic Acidosis - Differential ... / hypoxemia -> focus ... perfusion - Cardiac ... failure - Low cardiac ... #typea #typeb #classification
Medial Meniscus Bucket Handle Tear - MSK Radiology
Imaging Findings:
 • Truncation of the medial meniscus on
The "double PCL sign ... Case description ... red zone of the vascular ... Differential diagnosis ... Tear #knee #mri #clinical
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
association • M > F Clinical ... and diplopia) • Vascular ... thrombosis, VTE) • Cardiac ... Behcet disease) Differential ... diagnosis #management #signs
It is important to recognize Acute Decompensated Heart Failure (ADHF) as more than just simply a
Signs of poor perfusion ... Signs of congestion ... Cardiac cath if ... the determined cause ... #diagnosis #differential
Peripartum Cardiomyopathy - Summary
1. Definition
 • Towards the end of pregnancy to 5 months postpartum
exclude other causes ... Differential Diagnosis ... or dilated) • Valvular ... and timing with Cardio-OB ... and relief of IVC
Palpitations - Differential Diagnosis Framework

What?
• It is an unpleasant awareness or sensation that the heart is
Palpitations - Differential ... myocarditis • Valvular ... palpitations: PVC ... #Palpitations #Cardiology ... #Differential #
Persistent Left Superior Vena Cava and Unroofed Coronary Sinus
Bubble study for cryptogenic stroke.  Left arm
→ L superior cardinal ... unroofed CS → R SVC ... rarely absent →Cause ... CoronarySinus #clinical ... #pocus #psax