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Cardiac Rupture with Pericardial Effusion

Apical 4 chamber. Note larger right sided pericardial effusion with significant compression
Note larger right ... sided pericardial ... MyocardialInfarction #AMI #POCUS ... Echocardiogram #ultrasound #Cardiology ... #A4c #clinical
Pathophysiology Of Constriction
Exaggerated Ventricular Interdependence:
 • Limited Cardiac Filling due to Fixed Volume → Septum Shifts
Pathophysiology ... Inflow Across A-V Valves ... (pulmonary vasculature ... pulmonary capillaries ... but constriction limits
Malignant Pericardial Effusion causing Cardiac Tamponade on Echocardiogram (S4c)
Hypotensive + respiratory distress. At first glance you
Echocardiogram (S4c ... first glance you might ... Cardiac #Tamponade #clinical ... echocardiogram #POCUS ... #cardiology
Eustachian Valve on POCUS Echocardiogram = A4c

What the Heck is in the Right Atrium?
Eustachian Valve! Rudimentary
on POCUS Echocardiogram ... Heck is in the Right ... #POCUS #Echocardiogram ... #A4c #clinical ... #cardiology
Sonographic Pulsus Paradoxus: Pulsed wave Doppler over mitral valve inflow demonstrating peak velocity change >25% with
Doppler over mitral valve ... Echocardiogram #Doppler #Pericardial ... #Effusion #POCUS ... #Clinical #cardiology ... #a4c #cardiology
Parasternal Short Axis (PSAX) at the level of the Aortic Valve

Phased array transducer; parasternal short axis/indicator
of the Aortic Valve ... stenosis, acuity of right ... heart strain (pulmonary ... echocardiogram #clinical ... #cardiology #POCUS
Malignant Pericardial Effusion causing Cardiac Tamponade on Echocardiogram (A4c)
Hypotensive + respiratory distress. At first glance you
Malignant Pericardial ... first glance you might ... Cardiac #Tamponade #clinical ... echocardiogram #POCUS ... #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 ... echocardiogram to workup right-heart ... circumferential pericardial ... #pocus #clinical ... #cardiology
Carcinoid Heart Disease on Echocardiogram (A4C)

"Frozen" tricuspid valve with severe regurgitation. Carcinoid heart disease: Thickening, retraction
Echocardiogram (A4C ... immobility of the right-sided ... regurgitation #a4c ... Echocardiogram #clinical ... #cardiology #pocus
Atrial Fibrillation (A-Fib) Summary

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

Why?
Cardiac:
	• Valvular heart
Palpitations, light-headedness ... Noncardiac: • Pulmonary ... ventricular hypertrophy, pericardial ... Mechanical heart valve ... diagnosis #management #cardiology