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Severe Heart Failure & Cardiogenic Shock - Management Checklist 
Evaluation 
 - EKG & echocardiography
Severe Heart Failure ... Evaluation - EKG ... antiarrhythmics - Ischemic cardiomyopathy ... treatment for acute MI ... #HeartFailure #Cardiology
Peripartum Cardiomyopathy - Summary
1. Definition
 • Towards the end of pregnancy to 5 months postpartum
) • Valvular heart ... • Congenital heart ... • Hypertensive heart ... • Pulmonary embolus ... ancestry, LGE on MRI
Amyloidosis - Summary
Group of disorders associated with extracellular deposition of fibrils formed from low-molecular-weight proteins in
LVH, low-voltage EKG ... • Echocardiogram ... with Doppler imaging ... enlargement • MRI ... of the heart GI
Nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) may be performed by either single-photon emission CT (SPECT) or positron
History of heart ... significantly worse on echocardiogram ... Acute pulmonary ... myocardium Severe pulmonary ... when baseline EKG