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Constrictive Pericarditis on POCUS Echocardiogram - Apical 3-Chamber View

Young Lupus patient admitted to hospital new onset
on POCUS Echocardiogram ... Also has pericardial ... effusion/pericardial ... Had diagnostic tap-fever ... #CP #POCUS #Echocardiogram
Relevant Sonopathology of the Parasternal Long Axis (PLAX) - Point of Care Ultrasound
 - Right Ventricular
Dilatation - Aortic ... Hypertrophy - Pericardial ... Effusion - Dilated ... @emspocus #Diagnosis ... #POCUS #Echocardiogram
Constrictive Pericarditis on Echocardiogram
A 55-year-old female marathon runner presents to clinic w/ 6-months of worsening breathlessness
on Echocardiogram ... circumferential pericardial ... effusion. ... expiration not meeting diagnostic ... #a4c #pocus #clinical
Oncologic Emergencies - Differential Diagnosis Framework

HEMATOLOGIC ONCOLOGIC EMERGENCIES:
Hyperviscosity Syndrome:
 • Spontaneous bleeding
 • Shortness of breath
- Differential Diagnosis ... Leukostasis: • WBC ... EMERGENCIES:: Malignant ... Pericardial Effusion ... #differential #diagnosis
Chest Pain Diagnosis and Management Algorithm
STEMI:
 - Hx: Pressure like CP, Radiation to arm/jaw, CAD risk
Chest Pain Diagnosis ... /V/diaphoresis Aortic ... swelling, Wells score Pericarditis ... on sitting up, Pericardial ... friction rub, Fever, ↑WBC
Evaluation of suspected incomplete Kawasaki Disease

1. AHA consensus recommendations
2. Infants ≤6 months old on day ≥7
≥450,000/mm3, WBC ... and urine ≥10 WBC ... regurgitation, pericardial ... effusion, or z ... #Diagnosis #Peds
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes - OnePager Summary
Autoimmune ANCA vasculitis (AAV): GPA (granulomatous with polyangiitis), EGPA (eosinophilic granulomatosis
coagulopathy) • CBC ... o infection • Echocardiogram ... EGPA (↓ LVEF, pericardial ... effusion) • PFTs ... gross hematuria, RBC
SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)

Suspect:
Clinical evidence of (fatigue, rash, photosensitivity, inflammatory arthritis, weight loss, and fever) and
Differential Diagnosis ... Lungs: • Pleural effusions ... Serositis: • Pleural/pericardial ... • Asymptomatic pericarditis ... titers > 1:80 • CBC
Autoimmune Myositis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Inflammatory Myopathies: Commonly symmetric proximal muscle weakness, no substantial muscle pain
lung disease Malignancy ... dermatomyositis) Malignancy ... Symptoms: • Pericarditis ... /Pericardial tamponade ... Other Diseases: • PBC