Interactive Cases in General Internal Medicine (1) Flashcards
60 yr old man
Chest pain
Tight, 4 hrs
Nausea
Sweating
Breathlessness
HTN
DH: amlodipine
What is the diagnosis?
A. Pneumonia
B. Pericarditis
C. Myocardial infarction
D. Aortic dissection
E. Costochondritis
C. Myocardial infarction
If someone presents with chest pain (you think is of cardiac origin) what are the investigations you would want to do
- ECG
- Troponin
- +ve: coronary angiography
- -ve: ETT
- Echocardiography
How soon should you do a troponin?
6 hours after they started having pain
What are the differentials of chest pain?
Cardiac:
- IHD: Stable & unstable angina, STEMI, NSTEMI
- Aortic disseaction
- Pericarididtis
Resopiratory
- PE
- Pneumonia
- Pneumothorax
GI
- Oesophageal spasm
- Oesophagitis, Gastritis
Muscluloskeletal
- Costochondritis
What are differentiating feature of chest pain of cardiac origin
IHD: jaw, radiating down the arm
pericarditis: worse on inspiration, better on leaning forward
Aortic dissection: tearing, along the back, difference between the blood pressure in both arms
What are differentiating feature of chest pain of repiratory origin
PE:
Pneumonia:
Pneumothorax:
Patient has had mwlanoma metastaiszed to th brain and now on high dexamethasone.
Complains now of chest pain.
What is the chest pain due to
steriod: immunosupression - infection
oesophagitis - fungal infection
History:
60 yr old man • Chest pain • tight, 2 hrs • nausea & sweating • PMH: HTN • DH: amlodipine
Examination:
Temp: 37.0oC • HS: S1 + S2 • BP: 120/80 (L), 118/75 (R) • Chest: clear • Abdomen is soft, nontender
What is the most appropriate investigation?
A. CK
B. CXR
C. ECG
D. Echocardiogram
E. Troponin
C. ECG
feature of viral pericarditis
fever, sweating
better when leaning forward
pleuritic chest pain
What does this ECG show?
What should happen to this patient?
anteriorlateral MI
Should be sent inmmidiatly to a cathlab for percutaneus coronary intervention
What does this ECG show?
inferior STEMI
2, 3, AVF
What are teh ECG changes and artery affected in an:
- anterior MI
- Lateral MI
- Inferior MI
anterior MI:
- LAD
- V1-V4
Lateral MI:
- Circumflex
- V5, V6, I, aVL
Inferior MI:
- RCA
- II, III, aVF
what are the cardiac enzymes
When do you measure troponin and when does it rise and when does it fall
troponin goes up within 6-121 hour
but is up for several days (3-4)
History:
30 year old man • Collapse • HPC: – Before: no warning – During: no tongue biting – After: not confused • FH: brother died at a young age
Examination:
• HS: S1 + S2 + 0 • BP: 120/80 (lying), 115/75 (standing) • Vesicular breath sounds • Abdomen: soft, non-tender • CN I-XII: NAD, Normal I, T, P, R, C, S, G
What is the most likely cause of his collapse?
A. Aortic stenosis
B. Pulmonary embolism
C. Postural hypotension
D. Seizure
E. Tachyarrhythmia
E. Tachyarrhythmia
EXLUSION: says normal sounds (no ejection systolic murmur)
no drop in blood pressure when standing(not postural hypotension)
no post ictal period, no tongue biting (no seizure)
no risk factors for PE, or breathlessness (no PE)
What do you look out for in a person that collapsed?
What are differentiating symptoms?
Cardiac: no warning, sudden
Seizure: tongue biting, confused afterwards (post ictal period)
Vasovagal: feel dizzy come around quickly and
What are differentials of collapse?
Hypoglycaemia:
cardiac:
- vasovagal
- ouflow obstruction: PE, HOCM, aortic stenosis
- postural hypotension
neurological:
- seizure
What are the investigations you would do for the different causes of collpase
Arrhythmias –
- Tachycardia, bradycardia
DO an ECG (? Long QT), cardiac monitor, 24 hour tape
Outflow obstruction
- Left: Aortic stenosis, HOCM
- Right: PE
Do a Low volume/slow rising pulse, ESM, Echocardiogram
Postural hypotension
Lying/standing BP
What is a long QT syndrome?
- Abnormal ventricular repolarization
- Congenital e.g. mutations in K+ channels
- FH of sudden death
- Acquired: low K+ / Mg2+ , drugs
History:
• 45 year old man • Fever • Malaise • IV drug use
Examination:
Temp: 38oC • raised JVP to earlobes • HS: S1 + S2 + PSM (louder on inspiration) • Hepatomegaly
What is the cause of his raised JVP?
A. Constrictive pericarditis
B. Congestive cardiac failure
C. Aortic regurgitation
D. Mitral regurgitation
E.Tricuspid regurgitation
Tricuspid regurgitation
Which murmurs are heard louder on inspiration and expiration?
Left - expiration
right- inspiration
What are differentials of a raised JVP
-
R heart failure:
- Secondary to L heart failure (CCF)
- Pulmonary HTN (PE, COPD etc.)
-
Tricuspid regurgitation:
- Valve leaflets
- R ventricle dilatation
-
Constrictive pericarditis:
- Infection e.g. TB
- Inflammation: CTD
- Malignancy