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Atrial Fibrillation (A-Fib) Summary

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

Why?
Cardiac:
	• Valvular heart
Atrial Fibrillation ... Cardiac: • Valvular ... Noncardiac: • Pulmonary ... 1. ... AFib #diagnosis
Coronary Artery Embolism - Etiology and Scoring
Etiology:
 • Direct: Clot (LV thrombus, LAA Thrombus), Valve (Vegetation,
Paradoxical: Right to Left ... Angiography or Cardiac ... Fibrillation ... PFO, ASD, h/o of cardiac ... Artery #Embolism #diagnosis
Hepatopulmonary Syndrome - Diagnosis and Management Summary
A defect in arterial oxygenation due to a gas exchange
diffusion-perfusion defect (Type 1) ... shunt (Type 2) Clinical ... Microbubbles appear in left ... heart 3-6 cardiac ... cycles after right atrial
This is a parasternal long axis view of a young patient presenting with 3 days of
the OR in under 1 ... aortic root, and left ... atrium should roughly ... #EM #Radiology ... #POCUS #CardiacUS
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
murmur 3/6) - Pulmonary ... exam Determine Cardiac ... Change in clinical ... postoperative cardiac ... stratification #diagnosis
Mitral valve regurgitation is the heart’s version of a plot twist — just when you think
Clinically, it’s ... fibrillation auditions ... that glorious pulmonary ... Diagnosis by echocardiography ... turns into a cardiac
Double Shunt on Echocardiogram
What do you see on this saline contrast study, in a patient with
liver disease and pulmonary ... as RAP>LAP as atrial ... septum shifts left ... PVeins (extra-cardiac ... Echocardiogram #clinical
Peripartum Cardiomyopathy - Summary
1. Definition
 • Towards the end of pregnancy to 5 months postpartum
Cardiomyopathy - Summary 1. ... cardiomyopathy • Pulmonary ... and timing with Cardio-OB ... months before 1° ... follow-up with Cardio-OB
Negative Contrast Effect in Right Atrium - Differential Diagnosis
1. Small secundum ASD or PFO with left
Effect in Right Atrium ... 1. ... ASD or PFO with left ... #cardiology #clinical ... echocardiogram #s4c #pocus
Peripartum Cardiomyopathy (PPCM)

What is PPCM?
• A form of acute systolic heart failure that develops late in
Characterized by left ... Cesarean delivery Clinical ... Key Point: High clinical ... : LVEF <45% • Left ... experience recovery of cardiac