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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 ... BP high-no evidence ... Had diagnostic tap-fever
Constrictive Pericarditis on Echocardiogram
A 55-year-old female marathon runner presents to clinic w/ 6-months of worsening breathlessness
edema, and clear lungs ... circumferential pericardial ... effusion. ... Echocardiogram #a4c ... #pocus #clinical
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes - OnePager Summary
Autoimmune ANCA vasculitis (AAV): GPA (granulomatous with polyangiitis), EGPA (eosinophilic granulomatosis
OnePager Summary Autoimmune ... (UPC) ratio • Cardiac ... EGPA (↓ LVEF, pericardial ... effusion) • PFTs ... sparing of the lung
SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)

Suspect:
Clinical evidence of (fatigue, rash, photosensitivity, inflammatory arthritis, weight loss, and fever) and
permanent alopecia Differential ... disease • Non-autoimmune ... : • Pleural effusions ... Serositis: • Pleural/pericardial ... • Asymptomatic pericarditis
Autoimmune Myositis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Inflammatory Myopathies: Commonly symmetric proximal muscle weakness, no substantial muscle pain
- Differential ... Symptoms: • Pericarditis ... /Pericardial tamponade ... weakness • Severe cardiac ... #rheumatology #differential