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Abnormal Jugular Venous Pressure Waveforms - Differential Diagnosis
 - Absent a wave - Atrial fibrillation, sinus
, constrictive percarditis ... Rapid y descent - Constrictive ... Jugular #Waveforms #JVP ... Differential #Diagnosis #PhysicalExam ... #cardiology
Jugular Waveform Components 
 • a wave - due to atrial contraction: It occurs just before
• c wave - caused ... bulging of the tricuspid ... y descent - is caused ... #Waveforms #JVP ... #PhysicalExam #cardiology
Cannon A Waves
 • Caused by atrial contracting against a closed tricuspid valve
 • Atrioventricular dissociation
Caused by atrial ... against a closed tricuspid ... dissociation + retrograde atrial ... #diagnosis #cardiology ... #CVP
Kussmaul's sign in Constrictive Pericarditis 

A 50-year-old woman with a remote history of mediastinal lymphoma (age
in Constrictive ... Causes = RV failure ... ), and tricuspid ... #PhysicalExam # ... Pericarditis #Cardiology
Lancisi's Sign on Neck Examination in Severe Tricuspid Regurgitation

Semiology of severe tricuspid insufficiency : venous pulse
Lancisi's Sign on ... #Lancisis #Sign ... #Neck #JVP #Clinical ... #Video #PhysicalExam ... #Cardiology
Lancisi's sign in Severe Tricuspid Regurgitation - Physical Exam
Note the large systolic jugular venous wave caused
caused by tricuspid ... IJ vein seen on POCUS ... #PhysicalExam # ... Cardiology #Neck ... #Jugular #JVP
RA/CVP Waveform Interpretation

Central venous pressure (CVP) or right atrial pressure (RAP) waveform tracings can often times
ventricle (RV), tricuspid ... forward flow like tricuspid ... ” caused by RA contraction ... systole): ↑ in constrictive ... Interpretation #Diagnosis #Cardiology
Lancisi's Sign (Tricuspid Regurgitation) in a patient with Atrial Fibrillation

If you went to med school before
Tricuspid Regurgitation ... a patient with Atrial ... #Neck #JVP #Clinical ... #Video #AFib #PhysicalExam ... #Cardiology
Kussmaul's Sign - Differential Diagnosis

Typically the JVP decreases with inspiration as the negative intrathoracic pressure "sucks
associated with constrictive ... infarction, massive PE, tricuspid ... #physicalexam # ... diagnosis #cardiology ... #differential #causes
Cannon A waves during AVNRT on Physical Exam
In AVNRT, the atria and ventricles contract nearly simultaneously
In AVNRT, the atria ... to diagnose the case ... #AVNRT #PhysicalExam ... #JVP #Cardiology ... #Neck #Frog #Sign