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Myocardities Definition |
An inflammatory response to the myocardium; diffuse or focal |
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Myocarditis Causes |
-Infectious agents (virus bacteria, parasite, or fungus) -radiation -Toxic physical agents, medications, chemicals -drugs (cocaine, lithium, and phenothiazides -systemic diseases (lupus, vasculitis..) |
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Most common cause of myocarditis |
Viral and coxsackie virus B |
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S/S myocarditis |
Fever, body aches, sore throat -malaise -fatigue -chest pain -dysrhthmia -SOB particularly on exertion -fluid retention |
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myocardities 2d echo and m-mode |
dilated hypertrophied ventricle(s) ventricular dysfunction regional wall motion abnormalities |
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Doppler/color flow myocarditis |
evaluate disease states if present evaluate diastolic fx |
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Inflammatory or infectious process of parietal and visceral layers of the pericardium |
Pericarditis |
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Most common cause of pericarditis |
Ideopathic |
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Most cases of pericarditis are probably |
ciral |
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Etiology pericarditis |
acute injury occurs fibrin are relased and cover the parietal and visceral layers of the pericardium friction between those layers cause irritation and inflammation |
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Acute pericarditis can last up to ____ weeks |
six |
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Chronic pericarditis can last up to ____ months |
six` |
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Complications of pericarditis |
pericardial effusion Tamponade constrictive pericarditis |
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Pericardial thickening and scarring of the parietal and/or visceral pericardium. These layers become dense and adhere to one another, obliterating the pericardial space |
Constrictive pericarditis |
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Constrictive pericarditis: Eventually the heart becomes a totally noncompliant structure restrictiing |
diastolic filling |
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Constrictive pericarditis treatment of choice |
pericardiectomy
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