Valvular Heart Disease Flashcards
What type of symptoms are characteristic of valvular heart disease?
Exertional symptoms (patients with even severe valve disease don’t tend to experience symptoms at rest)
What 4 features of breathlessness suggest cardiac breathlessness?
Related to activity (usually)Often associated with ankle swellingOrthopnoeaParoxysmal nocturnal dyspnoea
What is a classification system used to assess the extent of heart failure’s affect on a patients functional status?
New York Heart Association Functional classification
Classes of New York Heart Association Functional classification?
Class I = no limitationClass II = Slight limitation of ordinary activityClass III = marked limitation of less than ordinary activityClass IV = severe limitation of minimal activity or at rest
Signs of right heart failure? (3)
Raised JVPPitting oedema (ankles and sacrum (more severe heart failure if in sacrum also))Hepatic congestion
Does right heart failure have a peripheral or central effect?
Peripheral
Tapping apex beat?
Mitral stenosis (thrusting displaced palpable (but more so than normal) apex beat
Apex beat in left ventricular dilation?
Displaced and diffuse (volume overload)
Apex beat in left ventricular hypertrophy?
Displaced and heaving (pressure overload)
What causes a parasternal heave over the left parasternal edge?
Right ventricular hypertrophy (due to right ventricular overload e.g. cor pulmonale/ pulmonary hypertension)
What is a cardiac murmur?
Audible turbulence of blood flow (can be innocent or pathological)
How to describe murmurs? (6)
Timing? - systolic or diastolicType of murmur? - ejection systolic or pan systolic/ early or mid diastolicWhere is it loudest?Where does it radiate to?What grade of murmur?Does respiration influence it?
What murmur radiates to the carotid?
Aortic stenosis
What murmur radiates to the axilla?
Mitral regurgitation
What causes the first heart sound?
Mitral and tricuspid valve closing (start of systole)
What causes the second heart sound?
Aortic and pulmonary valves closing (start of diastole)
Pansystolic murmur?
Mitral regurgitation
Ejection systolic murmur?
Aortic stenosis
Early diastolic murmur?
Aortic regurgitation
Mid diastolic murmur?
Mitral stenosis
Grading of murmurs?
I - very quiet (dispute of whether it is there or not)II - quiet - easy to hearIII - loudIV - loud with a thrillV - very loud with a thrillVI - loud - audible without a stethoscope