Valvular heart disease and cardiomyopathies Flashcards
Pathophysiology of HF?
Where is BNP released?
What is the commonest cause of chronic HF?
Ischaemic DCM
What is DCM?
What ECG changes do you see with pericarditis?
Viral causes of pericarditis?
Coxsackie
Herpes
Adenoviruses
Autoimmune causes of pericarditis?
SLE
Rh arthritis
What is Dresslers syndrome?
Dressler syndrome, also known as post-myocardial infarction syndrome, is a condition in which sterile pericarditis develops shortly after myocardial injury.
Immune system response to damaged heart tissue.
How long is colchicine given for pericarditis?
3 months
What can be given for complex/recurrent cases of pericarditis?
What is constrictive pericarditis?
What’s kussmaul’s sign?
Elevated JVP on inspiration
What HS do you hear in constrictive pericarditis?
Pericardial knock
Treatment for constrictive pericarditis?
What are the ECHO findings in tamponade?
Diastolic collapse of RV or RA
Where do you insert a pericardial drain?
What local pressure symptoms do you get with chronic pericardial effusions?
CXR findings in chronic pericardial effusions?
Globular cardiomegaly
ECG findings in chronic pericardial effusions?
What happens to LV with AS?
Aortic valve pressures for mild/mod/severe?
What are the causes of mitral regurgitation?
ECHO findings in MR>
AR causes?
AR ECG and ECHO findings?
MS causes pressure overload on what?
MS ECG and ECHO findings?
When would you do balloon mitral valvotomy?
When would you do edge-to-edge mitral valve repair?
When would you do balloon pulmonary valvotomy?
Is HCM autosomal dominant or recessive?
Autosomal dominant
Signs of HCM on ECHO?
Commonest cause of SCD <30?
HCM
Difference between HCM and HOCM?
What murmur do you get with HCM?
ECG signs for HCM?
Genetic abnormalities in HCM?
HCM management?
When is ICD recommended for HCM?
What is restrictive cardiomyopathy?
Types of cardiac amyloidosis?
Clinical signs of cardiac amyloidosis?
