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Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: Management Principles

General Therapeutic Principles:
Reduce the congestive state 
 - Caution
Ejection Fraction: Management ... hypertension, pulmonary ... ineffective) #Management ... #Cardiology #HFpEF ... #Treatment #HeartFailure
Right-Sided Heart Failure - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Cardiac Causes - Rule out Left-Sided Heart Failure (Most Common):
• Diffuse Lung ... • Chronic Lung ... Veno-Occlusive Disease #RHF ... #RightSided #HeartFailure ... #Cardiology #Differential
Stage I - Redistribution
In a normal chest film with the patient standing erect, the pulmonary vessels
supplying the lung ... In these cases comparison ... during a period of CHF ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #CHF #Cephalization
Severe Heart Failure & Cardiogenic Shock - Management Checklist 
Evaluation 
 - EKG & echocardiography
1 — Treat the lungs ... (no B-lines on ultrasound ... #Checklist #CHF ... #Cardiogenic #HeartFailure ... #Cardiology #Management
Heart failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction (HFrEF)
Clinical Presentation
1. Typical symptoms: dyspnea, orthopnea paroxysmal noctumal dyspnea, fatigue,
: weight gain, lung ... HFrEF may lack lung ... → no signs of CXR ... Jcortesizaguirr #HFrEF #heartfailure ... #diagnosis #management
Air Bronchograms in Pneumonia on Lung Ultrasound

Pearl: When lung looks like liver, it's never a good
Ultrasound Pearl ... CXR in video for ... comparison. ... #Ultrasound #clinical ... #pocus #Pulmonary
On the left a patient with CHF. 
There is an increase in heart size compared to
redistribution of pulmonary ... that helpful, but comparison ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #CHF #Exacerbation ... #Comparison #RadiologyAssistant
Congestive heart failure (CHF) is the result of insufficient output because of cardiac failure, high resistance
heart failure (CHF ... In the lungs LV ... a patient with CHF ... #Diagnosis #Radiology ... #CHF #CXR #Features
There are three principal varieties of pulmonary edema: cardiac, overhydration and increased capillary permeability (ARDS). 
The
principal varieties of pulmonary ... different forms of pulmonary ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #CHF #Vascular ... Pedicle #Width #Comparison
Pulmonary Contusion on Lung POCUS

A 20yo M presents after high speed MVA. BP 140/80, HR 95,
on Lung POCUS ... which is the best management ... hours later on cxr ... #Contusion #Lung ... BLines #clinical #ultrasound