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Chronic Cough - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Red Flags:
 • Fever, night sweats, chills (infection)
 • Weight loss,
- Differential Diagnosis ... Algorithm Red ... disease or CHF) ... lymadenopathy, clubbing, chest ... ) • Abnormal CXR
Diagnostic algorithm for a child or adolescent with suspected pulmonary hypertension. CHD, congenital heart disease; CPET,
Diagnostic algorithm ... CHD, congenital ... hypertension; CXR ... , chest X-ray; HPAH ... ; CLD, chronic lung
Right-Sided Heart Failure - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Cardiac Causes - Rule out Left-Sided Heart Failure (Most Common):
- Differential Diagnosis ... Algorithm Cardiac ... • Diffuse Lung ... • Chronic Lung ... #HeartFailure #Cardiology
Heart failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction (HFrEF)
Clinical Presentation
1. Typical symptoms: dyspnea, orthopnea paroxysmal noctumal dyspnea, fatigue,
: weight gain, lung ... HFrEF may lack lung ... Chest x-ray: signs ... → no signs of CXR ... Consider cardiac
Hampton hump is a radiologic sign which consists of a shallow wedge-shaped opacity in the periphery
periphery of the lung ... may aid in the diagnosis ... confirmed with chest ... #photo #CXR #EmergencyMedicine ... #CriticalCare #
Congestive heart failure (CHF) is the result of insufficient output because of cardiac failure, high resistance
output because of cardiac ... In the lungs LV ... can be seen on a chest-film ... #Diagnosis #Radiology ... #CHF #CXR #Features
Based on the images alone, it is usually not possible to determine the cause of the
between these chest ... Organizing pneumonia (OP ... nodular interstitial lung ... #Clinical #Diagnosis ... #Radiology #CXR
Left-Middle-Lobe Pneumonia - Radiography of the chest revealed a cardiac apex, aortic arch, and gastric bubble
revealed a cardiac ... infiltrate in the left lung ... pneumonia was diagnosed ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #Kartagener
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
disease b) CHF ... event, follow ACC algorithm ... Cardiology: ... unless prior heart/lung ... stratification #diagnosis
It is important to recognize Acute Decompensated Heart Failure (ADHF) as more than just simply a
hemodynamics and cardiac ... Cardiac cath if ... #algorithm #management ... #heartfailure #chf ... #criticalcare #