everything pericardial with well elaborated answers eg
A pericardial effusion developing post myocardial infarction is termed: - Answer Dressler's Syndrome
Which would be a characteristic of a large pericardial effusion?
USMLE Pericardial Disease exam
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION: choose all that apply.
An echo free space noted anteriorly, but not posteriorly could be:
Loculated pericardial effusion
All of the above
Pleural effusion
Epicardial fat pad
Aortic dissection – Answer Loculated pericardial effusion
Epicardial fat pad
Which of the following can cause an intracardiac-pericardial communication?
Trauma
Post cardiac catheterization procedures
Left ventricular rupture post myocardial infarction
All of the above – Answer All of the above
Dressler's syndrome is an etiology for pericarditis classified under which group? –
Answer Immune/Inflammatory
An inflammation of the pericardium which may result in pericardial effusion defines: -
Answer Pericarditis
The auscultatory sound associated with pericarditis in which the roughened pericardial
surfaces rub together is called:
Opening snap
Pericardial knock
Pericardial friction rub
, Tumor plop – Answer Pericardial friction rub
The heart is separated from the surrounding mediastinal structures by a double-walled,
fibro serosal sac called the: - Answer Pericardium
A thickened, fibrotic and adherent pericardium restricting diastolic filling of the heart
defines: - Answer Constrictive pericarditis
________________ results when the pressure in the pericardium is greater than the
pressure in the cardiac chambers, resulting in impaired cardiac filling.
Pleural effusion
Systemic hypertension
Pulmonary hypertension
Cardiac tamponade – Answer Cardiac tamponade
________________ tend to extend beyond the descending aorta, demonstrating no
separation between the descending aorta and the wall of the heart.
Pleural effusions
Pericardial effusions
Left atrial thrombus – Answer Pericardial effusions
An auscultatory finding in constrictive pericarditis may be a:
Carvallo's sign
Pericardial rub
Pericardial knock
Opening snap – Answer Pericardial knock
Which of the following is NOT a 2D finding associated with constrictive pericarditis?
Correct!
Increased diastolic wall motion
Lack of variation in the IVC size with respiration
Flattening of the diastolic wall motion
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