Cardiac Clinical Med 3 (Johnston) Flashcards
What causes murmurs?
- Turbulence across valve and or increase blood flow (anemia, pregnancy)
What can cause stenosis? What is the result of stenosis?
- Sclerosis, fibrosis, calcification
- Impedes forward flow creating a pressure overload
- Results in hypertrophy and HF
What is regurgitation?
- Reversal of flow, valve leaks, fails to close
- Creates a volume overload and results in dilation
What are some disorders that are systolic murmurs?
- Mitral regurgitation
- Tricuspid regurgitation
- Aortic stenosis
- Pulmonic stenosis
- VSD
- ASD
What are some disorders that are diastolic murmurs?
- Aortic regurgitation
- Pulmonic regurgitation
- Mitral stenosis
- Tricuspid stenosis
- Atrial myxoma
What is the grading scale for murmurs?
- Barely audible
- Faint, soft
- Louder, easily heard
- Very loud with palpable thrill
- Heard with stethoscope barely touching the chest with thrill
- Can hear without stethoscope or can hear with stethoscope close to chest with palpable thrill
What physical and auscultatory findings are associated with acute mitral regurgitation?
- Ischemic papillary muscle dysfunction
- Ruptured chordae tendineae
- Infective endocarditis
- Volume overload, inc. LA pressure, pulmonary edema, RVF/LVF cardiogenic shock
What physical and auscultatory findings are associated with chronic mitral regurgitation?
- Mitral valve prolapse
- Myxomatous or degeneration or mitral annular calcification
- Will hear blowing at apex, radiates into left axilla
- Reduced S1– use diaphragm
What physical and auscultatory findings are associated with mitral valve prolapse?
- Asymptomatic chest pain, SVT, PVCs, dyspnea, systolic murmur at apex, may have click increase with valsalva and standing
What physical and auscultatory findings are associated with tricuspid regurgitation?
- Significant if associated with pulmonary HTN, lung disease, RV infarction, inferior wall MI, IE, pacemaker
- Blowing systolic murmur hear in 4th ICS LSB: increases on inspiration
- Prominent V wave in jugular venous pulse
What physical and auscultatory findings are associated with aortic stenosis?
- Dyspnea
- Angina
- Syncope
What does the physical exam look like with aortic stenosis?
- Systolic murmur: crescendo-decrescendo
- Harsh 2nd ICS RSB which radiates into sternal notch/carotids
- Diminished S2
- Narrow pulse pressure (140/100)
- ECG- LVH, strain patter (down sloping of ST segment)
What physical and auscultatory findings are associated with bicuspid aortic valve?
- Associated with aortic root dilation, IE/systolic murmur/click, LSB or apex
- In Marfans or turners syndrome
What physical and auscultatory findings are associated with pulmonic stenosis?
- Systolic murmur: crescendo-decrescendo
- 2nd-3rd ICS LSB, radiates to left shoulder/clavicle
- May be associated with tetralogy of fallot
What physical and auscultatory findings are associated with VSD?
- Holosystolic murmur
- Left lower sternal border with thrill
- L to R shunt
- Murmur increases with hand grip