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Atrial Fibrillation (A-Fib) Summary

Symptoms:
• Palpitations, light-headedness, dizziness, dyspnea, exercise intolerance, chest pain, near-syncope, syncope.

Why?
Cardiac:
	• Valvular heart
Noncardiac: • Pulmonary ... Moderate or severe mitral ... Mechanical heart valve ... #diagnosis #management ... #cardiology
Atrial Fibrillation on POCUS Echocardiogram (A4C)

35yoF presents with acute onset atrial fibrillation.  POCUS shows dilated
atrium & poor mitral ... valve coaptation ... #Fibrillation #AFib ... #A4C #clinical ... #cardiology
Widened Pulse Pressure - Differential Diagnosis and Pathophysiology

Pulse pressure is the difference between the systolic blood
and Pathophysiology ... sclerosis (both heart valve ... Endocarditis • Mitral ... #Pathophysiology ... #causes #cardiology
Constrictive Pericarditis on Echocardiogram
A 55-year-old female marathon runner presents to clinic w/ 6-months of worsening breathlessness
runner presents to clinic ... , (B) a septal mitral ... expiration not meeting diagnostic ... #pocus #clinical ... #cardiology
Palpitations - Differential Diagnosis Framework

What?
• It is an unpleasant awareness or sensation that the heart is
testing Heart Rate ... heart failure • Mitral ... valve prolapse ... Pheochromocytoma • Pulmonary ... /Afib/WPW) • Loss
McConnell's Sign on POCUS Echocardiogram (A4C)

A4c view; RV enlargement & hypokinesis with apical sparing ("McConnell Sign"
Sign" c/w acute right ... Diagnosis concerning ... for Pulmonary Embolism ... #clinical #ultrasound ... #cardiology
McConnell's Sign on POCUS Echocardiogram

2 patients w/ different diagnoses.  Both demonstrate an apical 4-chamber view
patients w/ different diagnoses ... typically from acute right ... strain related to pulmonary ... Echocardiogram #clinical ... #cardiology #a4c