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Right-Sided Heart Failure - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Cardiac Causes - Rule out Left-Sided Heart Failure (Most Common):
- Differential Diagnosis ... Stenosis ... • Diffuse Lung ... • Chronic Lung ... #HeartFailure #Cardiology
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis ... • Most common cause ... CT Lung Abscess ... , or bronchial stenosis ... #Abscess #pulmonary
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes - OnePager Summary
Autoimmune ANCA vasculitis (AAV): GPA (granulomatous with polyangiitis), EGPA (eosinophilic granulomatosis
tracheal (subglottic stenosis ... Other tests: • CT ... Goodpasture's cause ... sparing of the lung ... CT
Tram Track Sign on Chest CT
 • Parallel, non-tapering airways, extending to the lung periphery.
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Track Sign on Chest ... CT • Parallel, ... bronchiectasis, CF ... #Lung #Pulmonary ... #diagnosis #radiology
Hampton hump is a radiologic sign which consists of a shallow wedge-shaped opacity in the periphery
periphery of the lung ... may aid in the diagnosis ... In this case, pulmonary ... confirmed with chest ... CT angiography.
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Infections 

Mycobacterial species other than those belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and
status NTM Cause ... Growers (Runyon Classification ... massiliense in CF ... • Dyspnea, • Chest ... Imaging, high res CT
Atrial Fibrillation (A-Fib) Summary

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

Why?
Cardiac:
	• Valvular heart
exercise intolerance, chest ... Decompensated HF ... Noncardiac: • Pulmonary ... severe mitral stenosis ... #diagnosis #management
Palpitations - Differential Diagnosis Framework

What?
• It is an unpleasant awareness or sensation that the heart is
flip-flopping in the chest ... insufficiency, stenosis ... Pheochromocytoma • Pulmonary ... Flag Symptoms: • Chest ... /Afib/WPW) • Loss
Congestive heart failure (CHF) is the result of insufficient output because of cardiac failure, high resistance
heart failure (CHF ... In the lungs LV ... disease and causes ... can be seen on a chest-film ... #Diagnosis #Radiology
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
disease b) CHF ... Severe Aortic stenosis ... change CV risk Chest ... unless prior heart/lung ... stratification #diagnosis