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Chest Pain - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Cardiovascular Causes of Chest Pain:
 • Myocardium:
	- Myocarditis
	- CAD/ACS
	- Valvulopathy
	- Myopericarditis
Diagnosis Framework ... dissection - SCAD • Pericardium ... : - Pericarditis ... Pneumonia • Pleura ... #Causes #Cardiology
Chest Pain - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Cardiovascular Causes:
 - Outflow Obstruction
     • Aortic
Diagnosis Algorithm ... Aneurysm • Pericarditis ... Wall/Pleura ... ChestPain #Noncardiac #Cardiology ... #Differential #Diagnosis
Constrictive Pericarditis on POCUS Echocardiogram - Apical 3-Chamber View

Young Lupus patient admitted to hospital new onset
on POCUS Echocardiogram ... could pinpoint the cause ... Also has pericardial ... Had diagnostic tap-fever ... #clinical #cardiology
Kussmaul's sign in Constrictive Pericarditis 

A 50-year-old woman with a remote history of mediastinal lymphoma (age
blue marks on her chest ... the underlying diagnosis ... Causes = RV failure ... extra sound is a pericardial ... #Cardiology
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA): Extra-articular manifestations
Skin: 
 • Inflammation of skin (esp. over areas of stress) forms
Inflammation of pericardium ... (Pericarditis) ... -> Chest Pain worse ... inflammation tends to cause ... signs #symptoms #diagnosis
Modified dengue severity classification, PAHO/WHO
Dengue without warning signs - DNWS:
 • Person who lives or has
and no apparent focus ... accumulation (ascites, pleural ... effusion, pericardial ... Shock evidenced ... classification #diagnosis
Palpitations - Differential Diagnosis Framework

What?
• It is an unpleasant awareness or sensation that the heart is
flip-flopping in the chest ... tachycardia • Pericarditis ... Flag Symptoms: • Chest ... congenital or acquired ... #Palpitations #Cardiology
Disseminated Actinomycosis- ...Computed tomography of the chest and abdomen revealed multiple pulmonary nodules (Panel A) associated
tomography of the chest ... associated with pericardial ... effusion, pleural ... patient received a diagnosis ... bacterial infection caused
Authors: Mark M. Ramzy, DO, EMT-P (@MarkRamzyDO, EM Resident Physician, Drexel University, Department of Emergency Medicine)
This post will focus ... trauma are diagnosed ... amount of force is required ... Most commonly caused ... #Radiology #CTChest