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Cardiology Potpourri
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This is the treatment for a moderate to large pericardial effusion.
What is Pericardiocentesis?
100
This is the leading cause of mortality worldwide and the most common cause of death in the US.
What is Cardiovascular disease?
100
The cornerstone of diagnosing a cardiomyopathy is this.
What is an Echocardiogram?
100
This organ maintains blood pressure in a narrow range.
What are the kidneys?
100
According to the ACC and AHA, the best serum test to perform in the evaluation of cardiac muscle injury is....
What is Troponin
200
A 22 y/o female with a recent resolution of a viral upper respiratory syndrome presents with a complaint of sudden pleuritic chest pain, worse with leaning forward. This is what you suspect.
What is Acute Pericarditis?
200
This is the Gold Standard for evaluating angina.
What is coronary angiogram?
200
Paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea, orthopnea, jugular venous distention, rales, S3, peripheral edema, and dyspnea on exertion are all part of this diagnostic criteria for heart failure.
What is the Framingham Criteria?
200
A greater than normal decline in blood pressure by >20mmHg upon changing positions (like supine to standing) is known as this.
What is Postural (Orthostatic) Hypotension?
200
This is the most commonly used, least invasive method of diagnosing peripheral arterial disease.
What are ankle brachial indexes (ABIs)
300
Based on a physical exam, you diagnose a 20 y/o male IV drug abuser with fever, chills and joint pain, with this...after you appreciate a non-blanching rash, splinter hemorrhages and small, tender, transient nodules on the pads of the fingers/toes.
What is Infective Acute Bacterial Endocarditis?
300
A patient with substernal chest pressure that predictably occurs while shoveling the driveway, lasts <10 minutes and is relieved by Nitro is called this.
What is Stable Angina?
300
This is the imaging modality of choice to assess for diastolic dysfunction in heart failure.
What is Echocardiography?
300
This is a situation where a patient is asymptomatic with systolic pressures >220mmHg or diastolic pressures >125mmHg, persisting after a period of observation.
What is a hypertensive urgency?
300
This is the test used in CHF for risk stratification and as a prognosticator.
What is the BNP.
400
This is the most feared complication of Giant Cell Arteritis.
What is permanent vision loss?
400
A patient with substernal CP radiating to the left arm, nausea, and diaphoresis is shown to have a new LBBB and ST elevation at V1, V2 on EKG. This is the initial management upon arrival to the hospital.
What is Catheterization?
400
Having a speckled appearance of the myocardium on echocardiogram is indicative of this form of cardiomyopathy.
What is Restrictive?
400
This is a situation where a patient needs an immediate reduction in BP (within one hour) to avoid risk of death or serious morbidity. Here blood pressure is typically >135mmHg diastolic with associated symptoms like headache, confusion, altered mental status, proteinuria, or unstable angina.
What is a hypertensive emergency?
400
This pre-excitation syndrome is characterized by a short PR interval, a slightly widened QRS and a delta wave.
What is Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome.
500
This is the presumed diagnosis in a patient who has a history of anabolic steroid abuse with CP and a syncopal episode, and findings of a complete heart block, a sternal lift, and confirmatory findings on Myocardial biopsy and cardiac MRI.
What is Myocarditis?
500
A patient with new onset substernal CP lasting 30minutes which occurred at rest, was relieved with Nitro and showed no EKG changes represents this.
What is Unstable Angina?
500
In a patient with non-acute systolic congestive heart failure and sleep apnea, this device can help improve ejection fraction and increase exercise capacity.
What is CPAP?
500
A patient presenting with resistant hypertension, pulmonary edema, acute kidney injury after using an ACE inhibitor, and an abdominal bruit, would lead you to this as a cause.
What is Renal artery stenosis?
500
This syndrome is characterized by senescence of the SA node from degeneration due to age, and the patient presents with palpitations and possible syncope.
What is Sick Sinus Syndrome.
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