Pericardial Disease and CV Tumor

Question 1

Exudate vs trasexudate

Appearance
SG
P
Seromucin
Coag
Cells
Glucose
Organisms

Answer 1

E- clear to straw/amber, >1.015, >3, +, usual, many, less than plasma, possible

T- clear to straw/amber, <1.107, <2, -, uncommon, few, normal, absent

Question 2

PT

Answer 2

collapses SVC, IVC, PV

Question 3

Hemorrhagic pericarditis

Answer 3

Blood with fibrinous/suppurative exudate

Question 4

Pericardiocentesis

Answer 4

Culture, gram stain, cells, malignant

Question 5

Chronic constrictive pericarditis

Answer 5

Encased in dense, fibrous, calcific shell- limits diastolic expansion and CO

Question 6

Cardiac myxoma

Answer 6

commonest benign tumor

Forms mass on stalk, usually on LA septum, grows slowly

Rarely found on ventricles

Question 7

Cardiac myxoma

obstruction

Answer 7

position pt to hear murmur better

embolism can cause strokes

Question 8

TS complications

gene

Answer 8

subependymal nodules, astrocytoma, angiofibromas, subungual fibromas

mTor

Question 9

KS areas

Answer 9

skin, mouth, GI tract

purple skin lesions