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Myocarditis 

5 Principles of
Myocarditis:
1. Build clinical suspicion
2. Decide on EMBx
3. Manage acute cardiac injury
4. Manage chronic
injury 4. ... shock, Arrythmias, Pericarditis ... agent, steroids, AC ... Myocarditis #diagnosis #management ... #biopsy
Myocarditis
Diagnosis 
• Endomyocardial biopsy (gold standard, rarely performed) 
• Clinical presentation 
• Cardiovascular MRI 
Clinical 
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Endomyocardial biopsy ... • Chest pain, pericarditis ... Abnormal ECG, echocardiogram ... shock, sudden cardiac ... #Cardiology
Hemopericardium and Cardiac Tamponade on POCUS Echocardiogram

Next best step for this 25yo male (SBP 70)?
Resolution: pericardiocentesis
Hemopericardium and Cardiac ... to definitive managemt ... Lotterman Labeled ... #Tamponade #Effusion ... #Pericardial #Cardiology
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes - OnePager Summary
Autoimmune ANCA vasculitis (AAV): GPA (granulomatous with polyangiitis), EGPA (eosinophilic granulomatosis
quantify renal injury ... o infection • Echocardiogram ... LVEF, pericardial effusion ... Diagnosis of PRS: Biopsy ... differential #diagnosis #management
Perhaps quite too often, the knee-jerk reaction to an elevated Troponin is to call our friends
too often, the knee-jerk ... of the resting cardiac ... time for coronary perfusion ... #echocardiogram ... #management #clinical