4 results
What's the Dx?
• 29-year-old male 
• Transfer community hospital 
• Hypotension
• Renal failure
• Altered mental status.
Clips 1 and 2 demonstrate ... Clinical #POCUS #Echocardiogram ... #PLAX #Infective ... #Endocarditis #MitralValve ... #Vegetation
Causes of Primary and Functional Mitral Regurgitation (MR) 
Causes of primary mitral regurgitation
 - Rheumatic heart
mitral stenosis - Infective ... Vegetations seen ... parachute mitral valve ... Primary #Functional #Differential ... #Diagnosis #Cardiology
Causes of mitral stenosis
Rheumatic heart disease
 - Most common cause worldwide. Commissural fusion, thick MV leaflets
Whipple's disease Infective ... endocarditis (vegetations ... atrial myxoma)/ball valve ... #diagnosis #differential ... #cardiology
Coronary Artery Embolism - Etiology and Scoring
Etiology:
 • Direct: Clot (LV thrombus, LAA Thrombus), Valve (Vegetation,
Direct: Clot (LV ... (Vegetation, Thrombus ... - Most Common Cause ... Embolism #diagnosis #differential ... scoring #criteria #cardiology