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Myocarditis and Pericarditis Flashcards

1
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Two categories myocardial disease

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Cardiomyopathy

Specific heart muscle disease

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2
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How do you diagnose myocarditis?

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Endomyocardial biopsy

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Clinical associations with dilated cardiomyopathy

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Gradual development of CF

4 chamber hypertrophy with dilation

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Causes of Dilated cardiomyopathy

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Familial Causes
Alcohol
Previous Myocarditis
Pregnancy associated with nutritional deficiency

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5
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Clinical picture of a dilated cardiomyopathy patient

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Slowly developing CHF, progressive and unremitting
May have precipitous decompensation
50% die in 2 years – needs transplant

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Morphology of dilated cardiomyopathy

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2-3X normal size hearts, all chambers
Mural Thrombi Common
Patchy Subendocardial Scars
Functional Mitral Regurg

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Histology of dilated cardiomyopathy

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Hypertrophied myofibers, stretched

Interstitial and endocardial fibrosis

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Clinical associations of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

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Muscular hyper-contracting heart

HF from decreased chamber size, poor compliance, and lower SV

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Causes of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

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100% genetic – Sarcomere proteins or mitochondrial energy defects

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Problems seen in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients

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Atril fibrillation w/ mural thrombus formation
Infective endocarditis on MV
Intractable CF
Sudden Death

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11
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What is IHSS

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Idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis

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Histology of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

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Extensive myocyte hypertrophy (diameter over 40um)

Myofiber disarray, interstitial and replacement fibrosis

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Restrictive Cardiomyopathy. Clinical associations

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Inability of myocardium to expand, contractile fxn normal

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Causes of Restrictive Cardiomyopathy

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Infiltrative diseases like

AMYLOIDOSIS, HEMACHROMATOSIS, LEUKEMIA, STORAGE DISEASES, RADIATION, CONSTRICTIVE PERI

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Three kinds or restrictive cardiomyopathy

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Endocardial fibrosis
Loeffler’s endomyocarditis
Endocardial fibroelastosis

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16
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What happens in endocardial fibrosis

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Children/teens in Africa/Tropics
Fibrosis of endo and subendocardium
Can involve mitral/tri valve
Can lead to mural thrombi

17
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What happens in Loeffler’s endomyocarditis

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No geographic restriction

EOSINOPHILS, leukoctosis

18
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What happens in Endocardial fibroelastosis

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Focal or diffuse, Cartilage-like fibroelastic thickening
First 2 years
W/ other congenital abnormalities

19
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Adriamycin can cause…

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toxicity from lipid peroxidation in the heart
Swelling and vacuolization
Fix by stopping the drug

20
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What is seen on the heart with pheochromocytoma

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Contraction band necrosis

21
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Common Infectious causes of myocarditis

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Usually viral + immune attack (CocsackieAorB, Echo, Polio)
Chagas Disease
Trichinosis
Diptheria
Lyme
AIDS
22
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Noninfectious causes of myocarditis

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Drug hypersensitivity
Rheumatic Fever
SLE
Sarcoidosis

23
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Morphology of myocarditis

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Diffuse of patchy involvement
Interstitial mono nuclear, predominantly lymphocytic inflammatory infiltrate.
Focal necrosis

24
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Describe giant cell myocarditis

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Widespread inflammatory cellular infiltrate containing multinucleate giant cells, interspersed with lymphocytes, eosinophils, plasma cells, and macrophages with necrosis

25
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Six kinds of pericarditis

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Serous
Fibrinous/Serofibrinous
Purulent/Suppurative
Hemorrhagic
Caseous
Chronic
26
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Serous pericarditis – Important details

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Non-infectious inflammation (RF, SLE, Scleroderma, Tumors, Uremia)

27
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Most frequent type of pericarditis

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Fibrinous and serofibrinous pericarditis

28
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Causes of Fibrinous and serofibrinous pericarditis

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MI, Dresler’s Syndrome, Uremia, Radiation, Rheumatic Fever, Trauma

29
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What is Dressler’s Syndrome

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autoimmune condition which appears several weeks following MI

30
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Most common primary tumor of the heart in children? adults?

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Kids – Rhabdomyosarcoma

Adults – Myxoma

31
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Why is chronic pericarditis a misnomer?

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Healed stage of acute pericardial inflammation
Results in plaque like thickenings, obliteration of sac in worst forms
Dense fibroadhesions may result in constrictive pericarditis, reduction of CO

32
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What is adhesive mediastinopericarditis?

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Pericardial sac is obliterated and the cardiac structures are adhered to, making the heart work much harder.
Massive cardiac hypertrophy ad dilation

33
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Usual cause of adhesive mediastinopericarditis?

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Chest irradiation

34
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Beriberi is associated with…

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Dilated myocardial disease

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