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Abnormal Jugular Venous Pressure (JVP) Algorithm
Outward Wave / Peak
 • With Every Beat
Venous Pressure (JVP ... Concordant with S1 - X-Descent ... Discordant with S1 - Y-Descent ... @saipeeps #JVP
Jugular Waveform Components 
 • a wave - due to atrial contraction: It occurs just before
• x descent - ... • x descent - ... • y descent - ... Thus the y descent ... Jugular #Waveforms #JVP
Abnormal Jugular Venous Pressure Waveforms - Differential Diagnosis
 - Absent a wave - Atrial fibrillation, sinus
- Prominent x descent ... percarditis - Slow y descent ... myxoma - Rapid y descent ... defect - Absent y descent ... Jugular #Waveforms #JVP
Lancisi's sign on Physical Exam
Lancisi's sign = loss of the x descent (in tricuspid regurg) creating
loss of the x descent ... #Video #Neck #JVP
Kussmaul's sign in Constrictive Pericarditis 

A 50-year-old woman with a remote history of mediastinal lymphoma (age
you evaluate her JVP ... paradoxical rise in JVP ... The rapid Y descent ... Clinical #Neck #JVP
Kussmaul's Sign and Friedreich's Sign on Neck Examination

A middle-aged M with unknown PMH presents with dyspnea.
What 2 eponymous JVP ... Kussmaul's (JVP ... (sharp/deep Y-descent ... Friedreichs #Neck #JVP
Demonstration of the parasternal heave using a long Q-tip, known as the "Cooney technique" ( @
Note her JVP waveform ... perfectly with the X descent
Constrictive Pericarditis on Echocardiogram

Patient was referred to cardiology for evaluation of dyspnea. JVP was enough to
JVP was enough to ... CP, prominent y descent
Jugular Venous Pressure Measurement
Examiner places the patient in a reclined position and puts the base of
Positive: JVP > ... , or sustained JVP ... likelihood of CVP ... #PhysicalExam #JVP ... #JVD #JugularVenous
Corneal edema with Descemet's folds; The folds can be visualized as dark, deep-appearing, criss-cross lines in
Corneal edema with Descemet's ... posterior stroma and Descemet's ... cornea #edema #descemet