Presentations Flashcards
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Aortic Dissection (5)
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- Chest (typer A) /Upper Back pain (type B)
- typically severe, sharp, tearing
- worst at onset - Pulse Deficit:
- weak or absent femoral, carotid or brachial pulses
- difference of > 20mmHg between arms - Aortic Regurg
- HTN
- Other artery deficits due to involvement
- Spinal - paraplegia
- coronaries - angina
- distal aorta - limb ischaemia
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Aortic Regurgitation (6)
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- Early Diastolic Murmur - worsened by handgrip manoeuvre
- Collapsing pulse
- Wide PP
- Quincke’s sign - pulsing nail bed
- De Musset’s Sign (head bobbing)
- Austin Flint murmur Mid diastole if bad
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Aortic Stenosis (7)
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- Chest Pain
- Syncope
- Dyspnoea
- Ejection Systolic Murmur - radiating carotids and reduced with valsalva
- Narrow PP
- Slow rising Pulse
- LVH/LVF
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Atrial Myxoma (5)
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- Generic Cancer symptoms
- Emboli
- AFib
- Mid-diastolic murmur “tumour plop”
- ECHO: pedunculated heterogenous mass attached to fossa ovalis
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Brugada Syndrome (5)
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- Sudden Cardiac Death
- Syncope
- SOB
- Palps - worse at rest or after meals
- Chest Pain
5
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Buerger’s Disease (3)
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- Young male smoker
- Painful reynauds / discoloured fingertips
- +/- Ulcers
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Cardiac Tamponade (9)
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BECKS TRIAD
1. Hypotension
2. Raised JVP
3. Muffled heart sounds
- Dyspnoea
- Tachycardia
- Pulsus Paradoxus - abnormally large drop in BP on inspiration
- Absent Y wave on JVP
- +/- kussmaul’s sign - rare
- Electrical Alternans on ECG (alternating QRS heights low to high from beat to beat)
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Outline Beck’s Triad (3)
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- Hypotension
- Raised JVP
- Muffled Heart Sounds
Suggestive of Tamponade
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Define Anginal chest pain acording to NICE (3)
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- Constricting discomfort in front of chest, neck, shoulders, jaw or arms
- Precipitated by physical exertion
- relieved by rest or GTN in about 5 minutes
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Categorise Anginal Chest Pain according to NICE (3)
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- All 3 definition Sxs = TYPICAL
- 2 our of 3 = ATYPICAL
- 1 out of 3 = NON-ANGINAL chest pain
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Coarctation of the Aora (6)
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- Infancy: HF in a child
- Adulthood: HTN
- Radio-femoral delay
- Mid Systolic Murmur loudest on the back
- Apical Click from aortic valve
- Notching of the inferior rib borders on CXR from collateral vessels
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Complete Heart Block (5)
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- Syncope
- Heart Failure
- Regular Brady 30 -50 bpm
- JVP: Cannon Waves in neck
- Variable S1 intensity
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Constrictive Pericarditis (5)
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- Dyspnoea
- Right HF: elevated JVP, ascites, oedema, hepatomegaly
- JVP shows prominent X and Y descent
- Pericardial Knock as heart slaps rigid pericardium
- Kussmaul’s sign positive
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Dilated Cardiomyopathy (4)
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- HF Sxs
- Systolic Murmur - stretching of valves may cause Mitral/Tricuspid Regurg
- S3
- Balloon appearance of heart on CXR
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Symptoms of Heart Failure (4)
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- SOB
- Reduced Ecercise Tolerance
- Oedema
- Fatigue