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Atrial Fibrillation Overview

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

1. Why?
Cardiac:
• Valvular heart disease
•
heart disease • Structural ... Noncardiac: • Pulmonary ... Fibrillation #Cardiology #Management
Atrial Fibrillation (A-Fib) Summary

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

Why?
Cardiac:
	• Valvular heart
heart disease • Structural ... Noncardiac: • Pulmonary ... Prevent irreversible structural ... AFib #diagnosis #management
Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) - Summary

GERD: Diagnosis
• Heartburn (substernal burning sensation) and acid regurgitation
• Chest pain
Extraesophageal
Laryngeal and pulmonary ... esophagitis • Stricture ... Disease #diagnosis #management
Oropharyngeal and Esophageal Causes of Dysphagia - Differential Diagnosis
Oropharyngeal Dysphagia
 • Neuromuscular causes: CVA/CNS tumor/ALS, Parkinson's,
Muscular dystrophy • Structural ... cervical ring/web/stricture ... Functional dysphagia • Structural ... Plummer-Vinson Web, Strictures
Peripartum Cardiomyopathy (PPCM)

What is PPCM?
• A form of acute systolic heart failure that develops late in
• Preexisting structural ... Preeclampsia-induced pulmonary ... dysfunction • Pulmonary ... cardiomyopathy • Pulmonary ... recognition and management
Algorithm for Management of Strictures in IBD

by Malorie Simons @DrMalSimons

#Strictures #IBD #Algorithm #Management #gastroenterology
Algorithm for Management ... of Strictures in ... @DrMalSimons #Strictures ... IBD #Algorithm #Management
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
murmur 3/6) - Pulmonary ... Arrhythmia - Structural ... days before Pulmonary ... medical and surgical management
Circle of Willis and brain circulation 
Herophilus of Chalcedon (335-280 BC), “Father of Anatomy,” described the
described the vascular structure ... precision both the structure ... the name of this structure ... famous eponymous structures
Vertigo Differential Diagnosis and Management Algorithm
Vertigo: Symptom of illusory movement because of asymmetry in the vestibular
Diagnosis and Management ... central vestibular structures ... Vertigo #Diagnosis #Management
Pulmonary Renal Syndrome: Investigations and Management

#Pulmonary #Renal #Syndrome #Diagnosis #Workup #Management
Pulmonary Renal ... Investigations and Management ... #Pulmonary #Renal ... Diagnosis #Workup #Management