Abnormal Jugular Venous Pressure Waveforms - Differential Diagnosis
- Absent a wave - Atrial fibrillation, sinus tachycardia
- Flutter waves - Atrial flutter
- Prominent a waves - First-degree atrioventricular block
- Large a waves - Tricuspid stenosis, right atrial myxoma, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonic stenosis
- Cannon a waves - Atrioventricular dissociation, ventricular tachycardia
- Absent x descent - Tricuspid regurgitation
- Prominent x descent - Conditions causing enlarged a waves
- Large cv waves - Tricuspid regurgitation, constrictive percarditis
- Slow y descent - Tricuspid stenosis, right atrial myxoma
- Rapid y descent - Constrictive pericarditis, severe right heart failure, tricuspid regurgitation, atrial septal defect
- Absent y descent - Cardiac tamponade
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