CV Flashcards
What is cardiac tamponade,
Compression of the heart by fluid (blood, effusions) in the pericardial space.
Increased intracardiac pressures limit ventricular filling and decrease cardiac output, leading to dyspnea, tachycardia, hypotension, jugular venous distention, and muffled heart sounds/
What are the three symptoms known as the Beck triad?
- hypotension
- distended neck veins
- distant heart sounds
Treatment of tamponade is _______________.
pericardiocentesis
Equilibrium of diastolic pressure in all 4 chambers of the heart is ~w/ ?
Cardiac tamponade
What are the “5 T’s” of neonatal cyanosis?
- Tetralogy of Fallot
- Transposition of the great vessels
- Truncus arteriosus
- Tricuspid atresia,
- Total anomalous pulmonary venous return (TAPVR).
What is the Key to differentiation of transposition of the great vessels (TGV) from tetralogy of Fallot (TOF)?
TGV presents with cynaosis immediately after birth, whereas TOF presents later.
What neonatal defect results from the failure of the aorticopulmonary septum to spiral. This manifests as neonatal cyanosis and often occurs in infants of diabetic mothers. It must be corrected with surgery.
Transposition of the great vessels
failure of the aorticopulmonary septum to spiral leads to what neonatal issues?
Immediate cyanosis;
Transposition of the great vessels
What diz manifests as a S4 gallop and systolic ejection murmur along the left eternal border?
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
*can see mitral valve regurg, d/t impaired mitral valve closure.
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy can be treated with what?
Beta-blocker or Non-dihydropyridine CCBs
What antibodies may be found in a Pt. with Hashimoto thyroiditis?
Anti-microsomal;
Such a patient would present with symptoms of hypothyroidism, not with the symptoms seen in this case. Antimicrosomal antibodies would not be present in a patient with microscopic polyangiitis.
What antibodies may be found in a Pt. with Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (PBS)?
Anti-mitochondrial
Patients with this disease would present with symptoms of cirrhosis, such as fatigue, jaundice, and pruritus. Antimitochondrial antibodies would not be found in a patient with microscopic polyangiitis.
What antibodies may be found in a Pt. with Microscopic polyangiitis ?
Anti-neutrophil;
GI bleed is common sign of microscopic polyangiitis.
______________ is a small-artery vasculitis caused by the activation of neutrophils and monocytes by perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (p-ANCAs).
Microscopic polyangiitis
Increased ______________ pressure leads to edema in congestive heart failure.
capillary hydrostatic pressure
define: anasarca
generalized edema
__________ is an intravascular colloid that plays an important role in increasing the intravascular oncotic pressure and drawing water intravascularly.
Albumin
What happens to the oncotic pressure of the intravascular space when a pt. is hypoalbuminemic?
When a patient is hypoalbuminemic, the oncotic pressure of the intravascular space is decreased and water tends to flow out of the blood vessels into the extravascular space.