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Pericarditis - Definition and Diagnostic Criteria
Acute Pericarditis 
 • Inflammatory pericardial syndrome to be diagnosed with
and Diagnostic ... chest pain ... CMR). ... #Pericarditis #diagnosis ... #criteria #cardiology
Calcifications Around the Heart on Chest XRay
Case #1: This appearance is typical of pericardial calcification &
Around the Heart on Chest ... is typical of pericardial ... / constrictive pericarditis ... #XRay #CXR #radiology ... #cardiology #clinical
Chest Pain - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Cardiovascular Causes of Chest Pain:
 • Myocardium:
	- Myocarditis
	- CAD/ACS
	- Valvulopathy
	- Myopericarditis
Diagnosis Framework ... dissection - SCAD • Pericardium ... : - Pericarditis ... #Differential #Diagnosis ... #Causes #Cardiology
Kussmaul's sign in Constrictive Pericarditis 

A 50-year-old woman with a remote history of mediastinal lymphoma (age
in Constrictive Pericarditis ... blue marks on her chest ... the underlying diagnosis ... extra sound is a pericardial ... #Cardiology
Myocarditis
Diagnosis 
• Endomyocardial biopsy (gold standard, rarely performed) 
• Clinical presentation 
• Cardiovascular MRI 
Clinical 
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Myocarditis Diagnosis ... intolerance • Chest ... pain, pericarditis ... cardiac death Management ... #Management #Cardiology
Chest pain after AFib ablation. What’s the most likely diagnosis?

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You are all correct: the patient had
Chest pain after ... the most likely diagnosis ... w/ a moderate pericardial ... Dx pericarditis ... MusaSharkawi #Clinical #Cardiology
Vasospastic (Prinzmetal) Angina
Definition / Epidemiology:
 • Rest angina attributed to coronary artery vasospasm.
 • Patients often
Diffuse spasm of epicardial ... Recurrent anginal chest ... troponin elevation Diagnosis ... Prinzmetal #Angina #cardiology ... #diagnosis #management
Heart failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction (HFrEF)
Clinical Presentation
1. Typical symptoms: dyspnea, orthopnea paroxysmal noctumal dyspnea, fatigue,
un lymphatic Diagnostic ... Chest x-ray: signs ... → no signs of CXR ... #heartfailure #diagnosis ... #management #cardiology
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 ... ventricular hypertrophy, pericardial ... Fibrillation #AFib #diagnosis ... #management #cardiology