7 results
Myocarditis 

5 Principles of
Myocarditis:
1. Build clinical suspicion
2. Decide on EMBx
3. Manage acute cardiac injury
4. Manage chronic
shock, Arrythmias, Pericarditis ... , Tamponade EKG ... agent, steroids, AC ... #diagnosis #management ... #biopsy
Myocarditis
Diagnosis 
• Endomyocardial biopsy (gold standard, rarely performed) 
• Clinical presentation 
• Cardiovascular MRI 
Clinical 
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Endomyocardial biopsy ... • Chest pain, pericarditis ... tachycardia • S3, S4 ... shock, sudden cardiac ... #Cardiology
Constrictive Pericarditis on POCUS Echocardiogram - Apical 3-Chamber View

Young Lupus patient admitted to hospital new onset
View Young Lupus ... you see on this SC ... Lupus pericarditis ... can be seen in tamponade ... #A3C #SeptalBounce
Cardiac Tamponade on POCUS
Hypotension in trauma is not always due to hypovolemia. This was a great
Cardiac Tamponade ... tamponade. ... for definitive management ... ultrasound #trauma #cardiology ... #s4c
SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)

Suspect:
Clinical evidence of (fatigue, rash, photosensitivity, inflammatory arthritis, weight loss, and fever) and
5% of patients Cardiac ... • Asymptomatic pericarditis ... • Myocarditis ... Cytopenias • Cardiac ... SLE • Kidney biopsy
Complex Pericardial Effusion with Tamponade on POCUS Echocardiogram - A4C
Pt sent to ED c intradialytic hypotension.
Echocardiogram - A4C ... ESRD d/t Lupus nephritis ... About 950 ml removed ... Pericardial #Effusion #Cardiac ... Echocardiogram #A4C
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
Venous disease (SVC ... thrombosis, VTE) • Cardiac ... Disease: Pericarditis ... , myocarditis, coronary ... Syndrome #diagnosis #management