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Chest Pain - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Cardiovascular Causes of Chest Pain:
 • Myocardium:
	- Myocarditis
	- CAD/ACS
	- Valvulopathy
	- Myopericarditis
Chest Pain - Differential ... Myopericarditis • Vascular ... Pleuritis • Alveoli ... : - CHF - Pneumonia ... Diagnosis #Causes #Cardiology
Causes of Chronic Dyspnea - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Pericardial
 • Effusion
 • Cardiac Tamponade*
 • Constriction
Myocardial
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Chronic Dyspnea - Differential ... Diagnosis Algorithm ... Thickening/Masses Chest ... Distention Pulmonary Alveoli ... Interstitium • ILD • CHF
ARDS/VALI progression over the course of 1 week 
 (a) Day 1 - No pathological findings.
Progressing to diffuse alveolar ... normal-sized heart and vascular ... structures help in the differential ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #ChestXRay
On the left another patient with alveolar edema at admission, which resolved after treatment.
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another patient with alveolar ... difference in vascular ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #CHF #Alveolar
Stage I - Redistribution
In a normal chest film with the patient standing erect, the pulmonary vessels
The pulmonary vascular ... In daily clinical ... during a period of CHF ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #CHF #Cephalization
Heart failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction (HFrEF)
Clinical Presentation
1. Typical symptoms: dyspnea, orthopnea paroxysmal noctumal dyspnea, fatigue,
Fraction (HFrEF) Clinical ... Chest x-ray: signs ... Kerley B lines, alveolar ... → no signs of CXR ... diagnosis #management #cardiology
Stage III - Alveolar edema
This stage is characterized by continued fluid leakage into the interstitium, which
Stage III - Alveolar ... (alveolar edema ... increased width of the vascular ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #CHF #Alveolar
Previous normal chest x-ray (left) and CHF stage II with perihilar haze (right). On the left
Previous normal chest ... x-ray (left) and CHF ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #Lateral # ... CHF #Vascular #Engorgement
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
disease b) CHF ... event, follow ACC algorithm ... Change in clinical ... - Peripheral vascular ... one post op Cardiology
CT will also demonstrate signs of congestive heart failure.
On the image on the left notice the
be high in the differential ... presentation of alveolar ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CTChest #CHF #