Cardiovascular Flashcards
Ejection systolic murmur + BP difference in arms + radio-femoral delay
Aortic coarctation
Rib notching on CXR
Aortic coarctation
Slow rising pulse + heaving apex beat
Aortic stenosis
Atrial plop in early diastole
Atrial myxoma
Increased JVP + hypotension + muffled heart sounds
Cardiac tamponade
Kussmaul’s sign (paradoxical rise in JVP with inspiration)
Constrictive pericarditis (and cardiac tamponade)
Prominent x descent + absent y descent
Cardiac tamponade
Prominent x and y descents
Constrictive pericarditis
Reverse tick, sloping ST depression + T wave inversion
Digoxin effect
Machinery murmur
Patent ductus arteriosus
Chest pain + fever + pericardial effusion + high ESR weeks/months after AMI
Pericarditis
Brisk/jerky pulse
HOCM
Aschoff nodules
Rheumatic fever
Cannon ‘a’ waves
3rd degree heart block
Large ‘v’ waves
Tricuspid regurgitation
Young female with palpitations
SVT
Palpitations + dizziness in young female with eating disorder or alcoholic
Torsades de pointes
Ejection systolic murmur + fixed S2 splitting
Atrial septal defect
Pansystolic murmur over lower left sternal edge
Ventricular septal defect
Chest pain + dyspnoea + anuria + limb pain/pallor + paraplegia
Aortic dissection
Distortion of aortic knuckle + mediastinal widening on CXR
Aortic dissection