Valvular Heart Disease Flashcards
Grade 1/6
barely audible
Grade 2/6
audible, but soft
Grade 3/6
easily audible
Grade 4/6
easily audible with associated thrill
Grade 5/6
easily audible, associated thrill, heard with stethoscope lightly on the chest
Grade 6/6
easily audible, associated thrill, heart without stethoscope
systolic murmurs (8)
AS, PS, MR TR, MVP, ASD, VSD, HOCM
diastolic murmurs (5)
AR, PR, MS, TS, Austin-Flint murmur
when someone has Rheumatic heart disease think…
mitral stenosis
severe mitral stenosis can lead to (4)
- pulmonary HTN
-L side heart failure sx (dyspnea, orthopnea, PND) - R heart failure
-rare hemoptysis
low pitch, rumbling murmur heard best at apex, in L lateral decubitus with bell
mitral stenosis
murmur accentuated with exercise?
mitral stenosis
Graham Steell Murmur is …
“functional” pulm regurg heard at left sternal border
-soft blowing decrescendo early diastolic
arrhythmia associated with mitral stenosis
paroxysmal or chronic A fib
-important to slow the HR if tachycardic
what do you see on ECG with mitral stenosis?
left atrial enlargement
what do you see on CXR with mitral stenosis
left atrial enlargement with possible cephalization
what do you see on an echo with mitral stenosis?
- hockey stick sign (anterior leaflet tethering, posterior becomes immobile)
-fish mouth appearance (commissures fusing)
tx for mitral stenosis?
- limited meds (consider loop diuretic)
-rate and rhythm control with Afib
-balloon valvuloplasty (echo less than 8)
-valve replacement (echo grater than 8-10, combined stenosis & regurg)
2 types of mitral valve replacements
- mechanical (combo Warfarin & low dose ASA, more prone to thrombus than aortic replacement)
- bioprosthetic (degenerate after 10-15 years)
Describe mitral regurgitation
- something interferes with closing of mitral valve so you have backflow of blood back into the atrium
what can cause mitral regurgitation
anything that causes left ventricle dilation
-remodeling post MI
-dilated cardiomyopathy
-early rheumatic fever
-endocarditis
-chroda tendineae
-calcification
-Ebstein anomaly
mitral regurg sx? (3)
- asymptomatic
-arrhythmias
-heart failure sx (left, orthopnea, dyspnea, PND)
signs of mitral regurg?
- chronic L atrial & L ventricular enlargement
-A fib
-left ventricular dysfunction
-brisk carotid upstroke
-3rd heart sound
when does mitral regurg occur & where is it best heard & where does it radiate?
pansystolic murmur best heart at apex & radiates to axilla
what do you see on ECG with mitral regurg?
- LVH with strain (left axis)
what do you see on CXR with mitral regurg?
enlarged cardiac silhouette w/ enlarged L atrium