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Congestive Heart Failure - Causes, Pathophysiology and Differential Diagnosis
 • Dilated Cardiomyopathy 
 • Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Pathophysiology and Differential ... DiagnosisDilated ... • Hypertrophic ... Pathophysiology #Differential ... #Diagnosis #cardiology
Causes of Dilated Cardiomyopathy DCMP - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Idiopathic DCMP: Viral, Inflammatory cardiomyopathy, Genetic causes, Unknown
Causes of Dilated ... DCMP - Differential ... Diagnosis Algorithm ... Chemotherapy, Stress ... #Causes #cardiology
Systolic Murmurs - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Benign / Flow / Hyperdynamic:
 • Pregnancy
 • Fever
 • Anemia
Supravalvular
Systolic Murmurs - Differential ... Diagnosis Algorithm ... • Prolapse • Dilated ... #Differential # ... Diagnosis #Algorithm
Relevant Sonopathology of the Parasternal Long Axis (PLAX) - Point of Care Ultrasound
 - Right Ventricular
Right Ventricular Hypertrophy ... Pericardial Effusion - Dilated ... Cardiomyopathy ... @emspocus #Diagnosis ... #POCUS #Echocardiogram
Septal Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HOCM)

52yo worsening exertional sx and murmur. EKG nonspecific, Serial trops (-) 
EM resident
Serial trops (-) EM ... Admit ==> Positive stress ... HCM #clinical #echocardiogram ... #plax #cardiology ... #pocus
Deep T Wave Inversions - Differential
Normal variants 
  A. Juvenile T wave pattern
infarction Takotsubo (stress ... Apical hypertrophic ... cardiomyopathy ... #Diagnosis #Causes ... #Cardiology #ECG
Primary and Secondary Causes of Mitral Regurgitation
Primary (organic) chronic mitral regurgitation:
 • Leaflet: Rheumatic fever, Infective
regurgitation: • Leaflet: Hypertrophic ... cardiomyopathy, ... Myocardial infarction, Dilated ... Regurgitation #differential ... #diagnosis #cardiology
Left Ventricular Non-Compaction Cardiomyopathy
First described 80 years or so ago, it occurs secondary to the failure
may also have hypertrophic ... dilated cardiomyopathy ... #clinical #diagnosis ... #cardiology #echocardiogram ... #psax #cardiology
HOCM on POCUS Echocardiogram (A4C)

85 yo s/p syncope. Here is the POCUS showing significant septal hypertrophy!
HOCM on POCUS Echocardiogram ... admission, he was diagnosed ... #cardiomyopathy ... #POCUS #Echocardiogram ... A4C #clinical #cardiology
Causes of Sudden Cardiac Arrest
Primary Myocardial Processes (> 90%):
 • Acquired structural heart disease: CAD, Most
heart disease: Hypertrophic ... cardiomyopathy, ... Familial dilated ... #differential # ... diagnosis #causes