Cardiac conditions and their symptoms Flashcards
What are the signs and symptoms for left side heart failure?
Pulmonary oedema
peripheral oedema (mainly ankle)
coughing
What are the signs and symptoms for right side heart failure?
peripheral oedema (mainly ankle)
coughing
abdominal swelling
JVD
What are the signs and symptoms for endocarditis?
heart murmur
Flu-like symptoms
aching muscles and joints
What are the signs and symptoms for pericarditis?
- Chest pain that may spread to the left shoulder and neck
- Worse when coughing, lying down or deep breaths
- better when sitting up or leaning forward
- fever
- peripheral oedema
What are the signs and symptoms for cardiac tamponade?
Beck’s triad:
Low BP
Distended neck veins
muffled heart sounds
What are the signs and symptoms for cardiomyopathy?
Peripheral oedema
cough when lying down
SOB and fatigue
What are the signs and symptoms for unstable angina?
Chest pain, that radiates to upper extremities or back at rest and without exertion and lasts for more than 15 minutes
no raised troponins
ST wave depression
What are the signs and symptoms for STEMI?
elevated ST wave
progression to Q wave
a full blockage of the coronary artery
raised troponins
What are the signs and symptoms for NSTEMI?
depressed ST wave or T-wave inversion
no progression to Q wave
partial blockage of the coronary artery
raised troponins
What are the signs and symptoms for mitral regurgitation?
SOB
swollen feet or ankles
sound of blood flow across the valve (murmur)
What are the signs and symptoms for aortic regurgitation?
Heart murmur
SOB when exercising or lying down
swollen feet or ankles
What are the signs and symptoms for mitral stenosis?
SOB when exercising or lying down
swollen feet or ankles
pulmonary oedema
What are the signs and symptoms for aortic stenosis?
heart murmur heart loudest over aortic valve
What are the signs and symptoms for costochondritis?
Sharp chest pain near breastbone when you breath or cough
Tenderness when pressing on rib bones
What are the signs and symptoms for an abdominal aneurysm?
Heartbeat sensation in stomach
Tummy and lower back pain
