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Atrial Fibrillation (A-Fib) Summary

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

Why?
Cardiac:
	• Valvular heart
Atrial Fibrillation ... Noncardiac: • Pulmonary ... identify left atrial ... test for DM Atrial ... diagnosis #management #cardiology
In this illustration the lower lobe arteries are coloured blue because they contain oxygen-poor blood.
They have
towards the left atrium ... arteries. ... #Anatomy #Radiology ... #CXR #Lateral # ... PulmonaryVeins #RadiologyAssistant
It is very important to differentiate between acute consolidation and chronic consolidation, because it will limit
proteinaceous material ... #Diagnosis #Radiology ... #Pulmonary #CXR ... #Differential #RadiologyAssistant
Rheumatic Heart Disease - Mitral Stenosis on Echocardiogram
(1) Thickened and fibrosed MV leaflets - rheumatic etiology
(7) patient in atrial ... clinically be in CHF ... Echocardiogram #clinical #cardiology ... #a4c #thrombus
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When a rib fracture heals, the callus formation may create a mass-like appearance (blue arrow).
Sometimes a
and the enlarged pulmonary ... arterial hypertension ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #Old #RibFracture ... #Pseudotumor #RadiologyAssistant
On a chest film only the outer contours of the heart are seen.
In many cases we
blood from the pulmonary ... . - Left atrial ... #Anatomy #Radiology ... #CXR #Atrium #Ventricle ... Cardiac #Chambers #RadiologyAssistant
Pulmonary sequestration
This is an uncommon cause of lobar consolidation.
It is a congenital abnormality.
A nonfunctioning part of
Pulmonary sequestration ... tree and receives arterial ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #CtChest # ... PulmonarySequestration #RadiologyAssistant
Artery-to-bronchus ratio 
Normally the vessels in the upper lobes are smaller than the accompanying bronchus with
lower lobes the arteries ... redistribution of pulmonary ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #CHF #Vascular ... #Engorgement #RadiologyAssistant
Dilation of the azygos vein is a sign of increased right atrial pressure and is usually
increased right atrial ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #CHF #Azygous ... AzygousVein #Dilatation #RadiologyAssistant