239 Pericardial Disease Flashcards
(27 cards)
Beck’s triad
Hypotension
Soft or absent heart sounds
Jugular venous distention
Patch of dullness and increased fremitus beneath the angle of the left scapula
Ewart’s sign
Amount of pericardial fluid for beck’s triad
200 ml
Pulsus paradoxus
10 mmHg inspiratory decline in syatemic arterial pressure
Pulse display in constrictive pericarditis
M shaped contour
Prominent x and y descent
This is diminished in cardiac tamponade
Most prominent deflection in constrictive pericarditis
Y descent
Square root sign in diastole
Chronic Constrictive pericarditis
Kussmaul’s sign
Distended cervical veins remaining so even after intensive diuretic treatment, venous pressure may fail to decline during inspiration
Where you see kussmaul’s sign
Chronic pericarditis
Right ventricular infarction
Restrictive cardiomyopathy
Apical pulse reduced and may retract in systole
Broadbents sign
Where broadbents sign is found
Chronic constrictive pericarditis
Ecg in chronic constrictive pericarditia
Low qrs voltage
Diffuse flattening or inversion of T waves
Pericardial knock
Chronic constrixtive pericarditis
Occuring at cardiac apex 0.09-0.12 s after aortic valve closure
Where pericardial calcification is most common
Tuberculous pericarditis
Test to definitively exclude constrictive pericarditis
Mri/ct scan
Fall in atrial pressure after tricuspid valve opening
Y descent
Most common primary malignant tumore of pericardium
Mesothelioma
Combination of tense effusion in pericardial space and constriction of the pericardium
Subacute effusive-constrictive pericarditis
Broadbents sign
Chronic constrictive pericardotia
Mc chronic constrictive pericarditis
TB
Kussmauls sign
Venous pressure may fail to decline during inspiration
Causes drug induces pericardiris
Procainamide
Hydralazine
Acute pericarditis after cardiac operarion
Postpericardiotomy syndrome
Pericarditis
Fever (39’c)
Pleuritis
Pneumonitis
Cause of post cardiac injury syndrome
Hypersensitivity traction to antigen that originates from injured myocytes