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Atrial Fibrillation Overview

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

1. Why?
Cardiac:
• Valvular heart disease
•
Atrial Fibrillation ... intolerance, chest pain ... Noncardiac: • Pulmonary ... #Fibrillation #Cardiology ... #Management #Algorithm
Systolic Murmurs - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Benign / Flow / Hyperdynamic:
 • Pregnancy
 • Fever
 • Anemia
Supravalvular
Pregnancy • Fever ... • Rheumatic Fever ... • Rheumatic Fever ... • Rheumatic Fever ... Systolic #Murmurs #Cardiology
Highlighted Conditions With Arteritis or Periarteritis of the Coronaries
Takayasu's arteritis:
 - Onset < 40 yrs
 -
nodules, livedo - Abdominal ... pain (men) - ... sinusitis - pulmonary ... osteosclerosis) - Right atrial ... Differential #Diagnosis #Cardiology
Bradycardia - Differential Diagnosis Framework

BRADI Mnemonic
 • BRASH/Hyperkalemia
 • Reduced oxygen/Glucose/Temp
 • ACS
 • Drugs
 •
Diptheria • Typhoid fever ... fever • Legionella ... Psittacosis • Q fever ... • Yellow fever ... diagnosis #causes #cardiology
Right-Sided Heart Failure - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Cardiac Causes - Rule out Left-Sided Heart Failure (Most Common):
Differential Diagnosis Algorithm ... • Acute Respiratory ... Arterial Hypertension ... #HeartFailure #Cardiology ... Differential #Diagnosis #Algorithm
Causes of Severe Aortic Regurgitation - Differential Diagnosis
Acute:
 • Leaflet: Traumatic Rupture, Acute Infective Endocarditis, Acute
Endocarditis, Rheumatic Fever ... , Whipple Disease ... , Cogan's Disease ... Degenerative: Systemic Arterial ... Diagnosis #Causes #cardiology
Based on the images alone, it is usually not possible to determine the cause of the
considered, like acute ... with cough and fever ... with low oxygen level ... interstitial lung disease ... Clinical #Diagnosis #Radiology
Widened Pulse Pressure - Differential Diagnosis and Pathophysiology

Pulse pressure is the difference between the systolic blood
of developing atrial ... mmHg developed atrial ... Diagnoses: • Acute ... Syndrome • Blunt Abdominal ... Pathophysiology #causes #cardiology
Atrial Fibrillation (A-Fib) Summary

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

Why?
Cardiac:
	• Valvular heart
intolerance, chest pain ... Noncardiac: • Pulmonary ... Testing: • TSH level ... thrombus • Digoxin level ... diagnosis #management #cardiology
Hemorrhagic Pericardial Effusions (Hemopericardium)- Differential Diagnosis Framework

IATROGENIC DISEASE
Secondary to invasive cardiac procedures

NONIATROGENIC
• Malignancy (e.g., metastatic spread:
IATROGENIC DISEASE ... Complications of acute ... patients with pulmonary ... Mediterranean fever ... Differential #Diagnosis #cardiology