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Cardiac Valve Replacement - Anticoagulation INR Targets and Antiplatelet by Valve Type

Bioprosthetic valves require at least
Cardiac Valve Replacement ... Antiplatelet by Valve ... VKA can be stopped ... chronic atrial fibrillation ... #Management #Cardiology
Aortic and Mitral Valve Regurgitaton on Parasternal long axis (PLAX)

Parasternal long axis (PLAX) is part of
Aortic and Mitral Valve ... of your basic cardiac ... there and you can ... #clinical #cardiology ... #echocardiogram
Cardiac Stress Testing
Exercise:
 • Everyone who can exercise should!
 • They must be able to raise
Cardiac Stress Testing ... • Everyone who can ... 85% of predicted value ... Stress #Testing #cardiology ... #management #diagnosis
Intracardiac Rhabdomyomas on Echocardiogram

Huge cardiac masses...initially diagnosed in utero, mass just beneath the aortic valve Anguished
Huge cardiac ... masses...initially diagnosed ... beneath the aortic valve ... #clinical #cardiology ... #pocus #plax
Lambls Excrescences on Echocardiogram
An incidental finding in a young patient with polyneuritis - there is a
on the aortic valve ... As you can appreciate ... independent of cardiac ... #Excrescences #psax ... #clinical #cardiology
Atrial Fibrillation (A-Fib) Summary

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

Why?
Cardiac:
	• Valvular heart
Atrial Fibrillation ... Cardiac: • Valvular ... Mechanical heart valve ... #AFib #diagnosis ... #management #cardiology
Endocarditis Summary

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV substance use
• IV catheter
• Recent
• Prosthetic valve ... dental procedure • Cardiac ... loss • Myalgias Cardiac ... : • New cardiac ... #management #cardiology
Ventricular Fibrillation on POCUS Echocardiogram - Parasternal Short Axis

50's male witnessed arrest. Unknown hx. AED no
Ventricular Fibrillation ... on POCUS Echocardiogram ... Diagnosis? ... Fine Vfib can be ... #VFib #PSAX #POCUS
Perhaps quite too often, the knee-jerk reaction to an elevated Troponin is to call our friends
of the resting cardiac ... patients with CAD ... #diagnosis #algorithm ... #cardiology #echocardiogram ... #management #clinical
Marantic Endocarditis 

Epidemiology:
 - Incidence of non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis (marantic endocarditis if associated with cancer) is
events revealed 19% had ... cardiac valvular ... destruction of valve ... #Endocarditis #Diagnosis ... #Management #Cardiology