cardio Flashcards
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acute mitral regurgitation findings
increased preload, decreased afterload, normal contractile function, increased ejection fraction, decreased forward stroke volume.
chronic mitral regurg
compsetaory LA enlargement allows the LA to recieve regurgitant volume at lower filling pressure, preventing pulmonary edema. volume overload also causes the LV to undergo eccentric hypertrophy which is good at first but eventually causes dysfunction of contractiliy
pulmonary hypertension clinical findings
question showed thickening of the RV.
progressive dyspnea
complication is cor pulmonale and right sided signs
pulmonary hypertensino causes
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (primary) - idiopathic (sporadic) - hereditary Pulmonary hypertension (secondary) -left heart failure - chronic lung disease ∨. or hypoxia - chronic pulmonary embolisms
pulmonary arterial hypertension histology
intimal hyperplasia and fibrosis, medial hypertrophy, and formatino of capillary tufts
severity of mitral stenosis
determined by (s2) a2-to-opening snap time
as things get worse and more stenotic, the left atrial pressure rises, this causes increased forceful filling of the left ventrile and a soon snap
complication of mitral stenosis?
right sided HF
most specific sign for LHF
orthopnea
what causes endocarditis on damaged valves?
damaged valves (eg MVP or rheumatic fever) cause turbulent flow.
This causes a sterile fibrin-platelet nidus to develop.
usually happens on the atrial surface of AV valves or ventricular surface on semilunar valves
bactermia of any cause can seed nidus
staph aureus can adhere to damaged or non damaged valves
vegetations become macroscopic
purpose of inverse relationship of hr and stroke volume
decrease heart rate? stroke volume increase helps maintain the cardiac output (because of increased filling)
what can worsen mitral regurgitation?
increased preload?
what can cause an s3?
functional mitral regurgitation in heart failure
what can make functional s3 go away?
dieuretic (lady had acute heart failure and murmur was gone the next morning)
what can cause rupture of the chrodae tindinae?
infective endocarditis or acute MI
what can cause infranodal (morbitz type II) second degree or third adegree av block?
LAD infarction
what would cause v1-v4 st evelations?
PROXIMAL lad
what causes v5 and v6
LCX dugh, but also possibly lead 1 and avl.
what would cause v1-v6 and possibly 1 and avl?
an occlusion of left main coronary artery
what would cause an increase in v1 - v2?
i think a distal lad?
what can cause s4?
it can be benign in elderly, just from age related decrease in ventricular compliance
the louder it is though, the more likely it is pathological
can be caused from long standing hypertension, or from restrictive cardiomyopathy
it is never normal in young adults, unlike the s3
secondary causes of MVP
marfarn
ehlers danlos
osteogenesis
what what demostrate severity of mitral regurgitation?
presense of an s3
large volume of regurgitant flow reenters the left ventrilce causing s3
so heart failure can lead to mitral rerurgit -> s3
or mitral regurgi can cause s3 by itself
a man with chronic stable angine and s4, with echo showing hypokinesia and has lvef 35 percent. undergoes cabg -> 10 days after surgery increased LVEF. Cause?
Hibernating mycocardium
myocardium decrease their metabolism, etc to prevent necrosis but comes at cost of lost contractility
transient MI iscehmia in experient shows increase in cell size. why?
because increase in na and c due to failure of the na k atpase and sarcoplasmis reticulum ca atpase.
increased ions draws in free water