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2017 ACC/AHA/HFSA Focused Update of the 2013 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure: A
Guideline for the Management ... American College of Cardiology ... Task Force on Clinical ... #CHF #guideline ... #ACCAHA2017 #cardiology
Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: Management Principles

General Therapeutic Principles:
Reduce the congestive state 
 - Caution
Ejection Fraction: Management ... - May mimic HF ... as an "angina equivalent ... ineffective) #Management ... #Cardiology #HFpEF
On the left a patient who had a CT to rule out pulmonary embolism.
There is a
#Clinical #Radiology ... #CTChest #SeptalThickening ... #CHF #RadiologyAssistant
Aortic Stenosis - Diagnosis and Stages

Clinical Presentation
- Exertional dyspnea
- Chest pain
- Palpitations
- HF Symptoms (orthopnea, PND,
and Stages Clinical ... Exertional dyspnea - Chest ... Palpitations - HF ... Diagnosis #Stages #Management ... Signs #Symptoms #Cardiology
Distal Intestinal Obstruction Syndrome (DIOS), previously known as “meconium ileus equivalent,” is an entity unique to
meconium ileus equivalent ... entity unique to CF ... insufficiency #Clinical ... #IM #Radiology
Atrial Fibrillation Overview

Symptoms:
Palpitations, light-headedness, dizziness, dyspnea, exercise intolerance, chest pain, near-syncope, syncope.

1. Why?
Cardiac:
• Valvular heart disease
•
exercise intolerance, chest ... Decompensated HF ... #Fibrillation #Cardiology ... #Management #Algorithm
Myocarditis
Diagnosis 
• Endomyocardial biopsy (gold standard, rarely performed) 
• Clinical presentation 
• Cardiovascular MRI 
Clinical 
•
performed) • Clinical ... Cardiovascular MRI Clinical ... intolerance • Chest ... cardiac death Management ... #Cardiology
Our patient was exposed to burning sumac smoke while clearing out her yard .  Toxicodendron
lungs causing ARDS ... #Clinical #EM #Tox ... #Radiology #CTChest
Stage I - Redistribution
In a normal chest film with the patient standing erect, the pulmonary vessels
In daily clinical ... practice many chest ... during a period of CHF ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #CHF #Cephalization
Notice that even within each lobe there is a gravity dependent difference in density.
This is only
transudate like in CHF ... capillary leak like in ARDS ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CTChest #CHF #