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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
Zones of the Neck - Landmarks and Anatomic Structures

#Anatomy #Neck #Zones #III #Anatomic #Structures
Landmarks and Anatomic Structures ... III #Anatomic #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