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Constrictive Pericarditis on Echocardiogram
A 55-year-old female marathon runner presents to clinic w/ 6-months of worsening breathlessness
circumferential pericardial effusion ... velocity of 9.5 cm/sec ... expiration not meeting diagnostic ... Echocardiogram #a4c ... pocus #clinical #cardiology
Hepatopulmonary Syndrome - Diagnosis and Management Summary
A defect in arterial oxygenation due to a gas exchange
Hepatopulmonary Syndrome ... cycles after right atrial ... blood gas (ABC) ... hepatopulmonary #syndrome ... #diagnosis #management
Constrictive Pericarditis on POCUS Echocardiogram - Apical 3-Chamber View

Young Lupus patient admitted to hospital new onset
you see on this SC ... has pericardial effusion ... with similar peri effusion ... Had diagnostic tap-fever ... #A3C #SeptalBounce
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
erythema nodosum (septal ... : Arterial (MCC-small ... (SVC/IVC occlusion ... ) Differential Diagnosis ... #diagnosis #management
Hansen's Disease (Leprosy)
 • Transmission - not completely understood, ?nasal droplets
 • Symptoms appear ~5 years
people do not contract ... China, India, Nepal ... Infiltration of dermis & SC ... #Leprosy #diagnosis ... #management #treatment
Negative Contrast Effect in Right Atrium - Differential Diagnosis
1. Small secundum ASD or PFO with left
Negative Contrast ... Effect in Right Atrium ... - Differential Diagnosis ... #cardiology #clinical ... echocardiogram #s4c
Facial Swelling - Differential Diagnosis Framework for Facial Edema

Infectious:
	• Dental abscess
	• Ludwig's angina
	• Vincent's angina
	• Cellulitis
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- Differential Diagnosis ... Infectious: • Dental ... eosinophilia (NEAE) • Contact ... Vascular: • SVC ... Malignancy: • SVC
Portopulmonary Hypertension
Presence of pulmonary arterial hypertension in a patient with portal hypertension
No other obvious causes (chronic
ventricular size, Right atrial ... of ventricular septum ... guanylate cyclase (sGC ... directly stimualtes sGC ... #management #hepatology
Antinuclear Antibodies (ANA)
ANA or Anti-NucIear Antibody refers to antibodies against antigens in the nucleus → like
microscopy and serial ... SLE), Sjogren's Syndrome ... or scleroderma (SSc ... Arthritis, Sjögren Syndrome ... #rheumatology #diagnosis
Double Shunt on Echocardiogram
What do you see on this saline contrast study, in a patient with
end-stage liver disease ... hepatopulmonary syndrome ... as RAP>LAP as atrial ... septum shifts left ... clinical #pocus #a4c