Cardiovascular Flashcards
Patient has fever and pleuritic chest pain that is relieved by sitting up and leaning forward
Pericarditis
Irregularly irregular pulse
atrial fibrillation
Alveolar bat’s wings, Kerley B lines, cardiomegaly, dilated prominent upper lobe vessels pleural effusion
Pulmonary oedema
ECG - saw tooth baseline + 150 bpm
atrial flutter
Raised JVP/hepatojugular
right sided heart failure
Sense of impending doom
MI
Saddle shaped ST elevation
pericarditis
Broad complex tachycardia
Ventricular problem
Mid-diastolic murmur with a tapping, undisplaced apex
Mitral stenosis
Broad QRS with slurred upstroke on R wave (delta wave)
Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome
Tall, tented T waves
Hyperkalaemia (and wide QRS complexes)
Patient gets pericarditis 4-6 weeks post MI
Dressler’s syndrome
Blurred yellowing vision, headache
Digoxin Toxicity
Janeway Lesions/Osler’s Nodes
Subacute bacterial endocarditis
Continuous Machine like Heart Murmur
Patent Ductus Arteriosus
Rib Notching on CXR
Coarctation of the aorta
Crescendo decrescendo murmur
Aortic Stenosis
Diminished absent lower limb pulses
Coarctation of the aorta
side effect of ACEI
- dry cough
- renal dysfunction
- angioneurotic oedema
radial- radial delay
aortic dissection(tear in wall of aorta)/coarctation of aorta
collapsing pulse
aortic regurgitation
machine like murmur
patent ductus arteriosis
slow rising pulse
aortic stenosis
splinter haemorrhages
infective endocarditis
Atrial myxoma
a noncancerous tumour in the upper left or right side of the heart; most often grows on the wall that separates the two sides of the heart.
Cardiac tamponade
collection of blood/fluid/pus/clots/gas around the heart/pericardial space that prevents contractions. Medical emergency.
Treatment of pericarditis
pain relief; NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug)
