Etiology
These are dilated tortuous veins caused by immobility.
The symptoms of this include peripheral dependant edema and weight gain.
What is right heart failure (cor pulmonale)?
The ankle brachial index (ABI) is used to diagnose this.
What is peripheral vascular disease?
TED hose and sequential compression devices can prevent these.
What are varicose veins?
This complication of a DVT is often fatal.
What is a pulmonary embolism?
Rheumatic Heart Disease is often precipitated by this disease.
Group A Beta Hemolytic strep.
This symptom is shared by PAD and Buerger's Disease and causes cramping pain.
What is intermittent claudication?
This determines the prognosis after a myocardial infarction.
What is the zone of damage?
Diseases in this system cause decreased palpable pulses.
What is the arterial system?
This is caused by a severe drop in cardiac output caused by heart failure.
What is cardiogenic shock?
This is caused by the heart being unable to pump enough blood to meet the body's needs.
What is heart failure?
This disease is manifested by numbness and tingling of the fingers and toes as well as a change in color from pallor to cyanosis to erythema.
What is Raynaud's?
This test uses an echocardiogram to measure the ventricular volume put out with each contraction.
What is ejection fraction?
Pulmonary congestion is a symptom of this.
What is left heart failure (CHF)?
This may occur from overflow of advanced CHF.
What is right heart failure?
This vasculitis affects the hands and feet of smokers.
What is Buerger's Disease?
Symptoms of this can include edema, stasis dermatitis, and stasis ulcers.
What is chronic venous insufficiency?
This is indicated by ST elevations in the case of a myocardial infarction.
(STEMI)
What is total wall damage?
For these problems, you want to have the legs angled upwards.
What are venous issues?
This complication commonly follows MI and is often what causes fatalities.
What are arrhythmias?
This form of angina is caused by vasospasms of coronary arteries.
What is Variant/Printzmetal's angina?
The symptoms of this can be represented by the acronym PULSE (bonus if you can tell me what PULSE stands for).
What is a myocardial infarction?
These are secreted by overly stretched ventricles to decrease circulation volume. An increased value indicates heart failure.
What are natriuretic peptides?
Activity intolerance is indicative of this.
This may occur from increased venous pooling in varicose veins.
What is deep vein thrombosis?