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Kussmaul's sign in Constrictive Pericarditis 

A 50-year-old woman with a remote history of mediastinal lymphoma (age
There is an extra heart ... the underlying diagnosis ... Causes = RV failure ... PhysicalExam #Video #Clinical ... Pericarditis #Cardiology
Checklist for the Echocardiographic Evaluation of Pulmonary Hypertension
 • Record estimated PASP
 • Evaluate RV size
Echocardiographic Evaluation ... • Evaluate for signs ... • Evaluate for causes ... of PH (left heart ... Echocardiography #diagnosis
Kussmaul's Sign on Physical Exam

What’s the diagnosis?
Severe biventeicular failure with + Kussmaul sign! NICM. No constriction!

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What’s the diagnosis ... inability of the right heart ... and other rarer causes ... #physicalexam #clinical ... #video #jvp #cardiology
Kussmaul's #sign is the paradoxical increase or failure to fall of mean #JVP with inspiration. Commonest
Kussmaul's #sign ... fall of mean #JVP ... , severe right heart ... #PhysicalExam #clinical ... #cardiology
Causes of Secondary Hypertension - Workup and Differential Diagnosis
Approach (when evaluation should be done):
1. Severe or
and Differential Diagnosis ... Approach (when evaluation ... or papilledema, heart ... 109 mm Hg) with clinical ... renal bruit or signs
Restrictive Cardiomyopathy - Diagnosis and Causes
Clinical: Dyspnea, Exercise Intolerance, ↑ "Right Sided-Symptoms" (ascites, hepatomegaly, ↑↑peripheral edema)
Physical
Cardiomyopathy - Diagnosis ... and Causes Clinical ... Physical Exam: ↑JVP ... Endomyocardial: Carcinoid Heart ... #cardiology #algorithm
Portal Hypertension - Differential Diagnosis
Portal Pressure = the pressure difference between the pressure in the portal
Portal Hypertension ... - Differential Diagnosis ... >10 mmHg - clinically ... Post-Hepatic: • Cardiac ... R heart failure
Intraoperative Cardiac Ischaemia - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

If the patient is unconscious, signs of cardiac
is unconscious, signs ... abnormalities (hypo- or hypertension ... especially in heart ... consultation with cardiology ... Intraoperative #Checklist #Diagnosis
It is important to recognize Acute Decompensated Heart Failure (ADHF) as more than just simply a
Decompensated Heart ... Signs of congestion ... are excellent at evaluating ... the determined cause ... algorithm #management #cardiology
Peripartum Cardiomyopathy - Summary
1. Definition
 • Towards the end of pregnancy to 5 months postpartum
exclude other causes ... disease • Hypertensive ... pre-eclampsia, hypertension ... and timing with Cardio-OB ... #management #cardiology