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Type B Aortic Dissection Flap on POCUS Echocardiogram - PLAX

Elderly male with hypertension and DM presents
Type B Aortic Dissection ... Flap on POCUS Echocardiogram ... Diagnosis? ... #PLAX #Cardiology ... #clinical
Hemorrhagic Pericardial Effusions (Hemopericardium)- Differential Diagnosis Framework

IATROGENIC DISEASE
Secondary to invasive cardiac procedures

NONIATROGENIC
• Malignancy (e.g., metastatic spread:
NONIATROGENIC • Malignancy ... infarction • Aortic ... dissection - proximal ... have to repeat if malignancy ... #cardiology
Mediastinal Mass - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Anterior Mediastinal Mass - 5T’s
 • Thymic neoplasm
 • Teratoma (or
- Differential Diagnosis ... Lymphoma: These malignant ... can be benign or malignant ... can be benign or malignant ... dissection
Malignant RV Mass on POCUS Echocardiogram (PLAX)
57yo M with chest pain.  Normal work up including
Malignant RV Mass ... Normal work up including ... outpatient & ED workup ... Echocardiogram #clinical ... #cardiology #PLAX
Differentiating NBTE from Infective Endocarditis
No pathognomonic signs/symptoms or echo features that are specific to NBTE, and
high index of clinical ... is required for diagnosis ... Autoimmune (SLE/APLS), Malignancy ... features: Mobile mass ... dysfunction common, Aortic
Acromegaly - Diagnosis and Management Summary - GrepMed Handbook 

Clinical Presentation: 
 • Classic Acromegaly: frontal
GrepMed Handbook Clinical ... colon (↑polyps & malignancy ... to CVD & colon malignancy ... and Workup: • ... ACTH) 2/2 adenoma mass
Esophageal Necrosis
Etiology:
 - Ischemia and Gastric Outlet Obstruction with GERD may be inciting events
 - Associated
DKA, Underlying malignancy ... acidosis, and Aortic ... dissection. ... restored to esophagus Clinical ... retrosternal chest pain Diagnosis
Causes of Secondary Hypertension - Workup and Differential Diagnosis
Approach (when evaluation should be done):
1. Severe or
Hypertension - Workup ... and Differential Diagnosis ... Malignant or accelerated ... 109 mm Hg) with clinical ... Coarctation of aorta
Intraarticular Chondroma - MSK Radiology
Imaging Findings:
 • Subtle soft-tissue infrapatellar mass seen obscuring Hoffa's fat pad.
infrapatellar mass ... deposition or malignancy ... Intraarticular #Chondroma #clinical ... #mri #clinical ... #Radiology #diagnosis
Intracardiac Rhabdomyomas on Echocardiogram

Huge cardiac masses...initially diagnosed in utero, mass just beneath the aortic valve Anguished
masses...initially diagnosed ... in utero, mass ... just beneath the aortic ... Echocardiogram #clinical ... #cardiology #pocus