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Duke's criteria for diagnosis of Infective Endocarditis (3)
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1- Positive culture
2- Echo findings 3- New murmurs |
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What is Carcinoid Syndrome?
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SCALP
Skin, Cardiac, Abdomen, Liver, Pulmonary |
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What is carcinoid heart disease?
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Carcinoid tumors originate from neural crest cells that are capable of APUD (Amine Precursor Uptake and Decarboxylation)
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What substances do carcinoid tumors produce?
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1- Serotonin
2- Histamine 3- 5HIAA- serotonin metaboite |
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Most common infectious cause of myocarditis
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Viral
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Non-infectious causes of myocarditis
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1- Hypersensitivity
2- Reaction to drugs |
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When you see lymphocytes and monocytes in interstitial, perivascular areas, think
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VIRAL
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When you see neutrophils, think
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Bacterial
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When you see eosinophils, think
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Drug Hypersensitivity
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When you see giant cells, think
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Giant Cell myocarditis
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Dilated cardiomyopathy leads to
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Systolic failure- flabby HYPOcontracting heart
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Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy leads to
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Diastolic failure
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Microscope- disarray and disorganization
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HCM
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What is the most common cause of sudden death in athletes?
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Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
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Restrictive Cardiomyopathy is what type of dysfunction? Systolic or diastolic
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Diastolic because muscle can't relax
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What is endomyocardial fibrosis?
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Fibrosis of the endocardium and myocardium, may be from thrombus origin, cause unknown
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What is Loeffler's Endomyocarditis?
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High Eosinophils cause damage
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Endocardial Fibroelastosis
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fibrosis and elastosis
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3 examples of restrictive cardiomyopathy
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1- Endomyocardial fibrosis
2- Loeffler's endomyocarditis 3- Endocardial fibroelastosis |
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What is cardiac myxoma?
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Most common benign primary tumor of the heart, from primitive mesenchymal cells
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Where is cardiac myxoma most commonly found?
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Left atrium
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Lepidic cells found in
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Cardiac myxoma
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Peculiar structures resembling glands or blood vessels are characteristic of
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Cardiac Myxoma
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Myxomas can cause
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Valve obstruction and embolism
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How do you diagnose myxomas?
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Echocardiogram
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Causes of concentric LVH (3)
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1- Essential Hypertension (most common)
2- Aortic stenosis 3- HCM |
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Causes of concentric RVH (2)
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1- Pulmonary HTN
2- Pumonary artery stenosis |
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In ventricular hypertrophy, increased AFTERLOAD causes what
increases PRELOAD causes what |
Afterload- Concentric hypertrophy
Preload- Eccentric hypertrophy |
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Causes of eccentric hypertrophy of left ventricle (2)
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1- Mitral or aortic valve regurgitation
2- Left to right shunting |
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Causes of eccentric hypertrophy of right ventricle (1)
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Tricuspid valve or pulmonary valve regurgitation
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Most common cause of IE
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Strep viridans
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Most common valve with IE
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Mitral
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Aortic and tricuspid involved with IE with IVDA (Intravenous drug abuse)
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Notes
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Endocarditis with regurgitation, RF and fibrotic heart disease with stenosis
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Notes
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IE pathology
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Vegetations destroy valve leaflet and chordae tendinae
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IE signs
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1- Immunocomplex vasculitis- glomerulonephritis, Roth's spot
2- Microembolization- splinter hemorrhages, janeway lesions, osler's nodes, petechiae, infarctions |
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SLE causes LSE
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Notes
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Libman-Sacks endocarditis
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Sterile vegetation, caused by SLE, Mitral valve involvement- regurg more common
-On both sides of valve |
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Acute IE caused by what bacteria
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Staph aureus
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Subacute IE caused by
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Strep virdians
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Strep bovis and IE
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Colon cancer
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Staph epidermidis and IE
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Prosthetic valves
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FROM JANE
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Fever
Roth's spots Osler's nodes Murmur Janeway lesions Anemia Nail-bed hehorrhage (splinter) Emboli |
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Most common cause of myocarditis and pericarditis
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Coxsackie virus
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Doxorubicin and daunorubicin can cause
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Myocarditis
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Increased CK-MB and Troponins I and T indicate
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Myocarditis
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Pericardial friction rub most likely indicates
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Pericarditis
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Most common cause of Dilated cardiomyopathy
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Myocarditis
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3 Types of Cardiomyopathy
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1- Dilated
2- Hypertrophic 3- Restrictive |
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Murmur intensity increases with DECREASED preload (Standing up, Valsalva)
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HCM
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Tx for HCM
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Beta Blockers
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How does HCM cause Sudden Death?
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Ventricular tachycardia/fibrillation
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3 common causes of Restrictive cardiomyopathy
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1- Amyloidosis
2- Myocardial fibrosis after open-heart surgery 3- Radiation |
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Cardiac myxomas are most common where?
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Left atrium
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Metastasis is more common than primary heart tumors
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Myxomas more common in what age
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Adults
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Rhabdomyoma common in what age
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Children and infants
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Most common causing organism of IE
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Strep viridans
Staph- IV drug abusers |
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Nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis
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Sterile masses of fibrin, platelets, and blood elements
-No inflammation -May embolize -Associated with hypercoagulable states -Seen in burns , cancer, sepsis, pulm. thrombosis, indwelling catheters of heart, leukemias, mucin-producing tumors of ovary, pancreas, GI tract |
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Carcinoid affects what side and features
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Right side
-Valve and endocardial plaque like lesions- smooth muscle fibers, sparse collagen, and acid mucopolysaccharide rich matrix and subsequent fibrosis |
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Chaga's disease
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T cruzi protozoa causes trypanosomiasis
Can cause dilated cardiomyopathy |
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Viral myocarditis
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Coxsackie A and B and other enteroviruses most common
-Infants, pregnant women, and immune compromised people -Suffer from flu-like disease without cardiac problems OR sudden death -Most heal without sequelae |
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Fielder's or Giant Cell Myocarditis
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UNKNOWN CAUSE!
Multinucleated giant cells, poor prognosis Tx- cardiac transplantation |
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Tissue changes in myocarditis
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Focal, patchy necrosis or damage
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X-linked DCM linked with what mutation
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Dystrophin
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Cause of death of DCM
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Cardiac failure
Arrhythmia/sudden death |
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Cause of IE with prosthetic valves or indwelling central lines
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Staph epidermidis
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Pathogenesis of HCM
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Mutations in SARCOMERE!
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Disarray and disorganization
Myocypte Hypertrophy Interstitial and replacement fibrosis |
HCM
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HCM complications (4)
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1) Cardiac failure
2) Thromboembolism 3) IE 4) Arrhythmia/Sudden death |
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Enlarged dilated heart and DYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION is
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Restrictive
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Some causes/assoctiations of dystolic dysfunction
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Amyloidosis, sarcoidosis, storage diseases, radiation fibrosis
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Seen in infants and young children
Focal or diffuse cartilage-like thickening of the mural endocardium of cardiac chambers owing to fibrosis and elastosis -Associated with congenital cardiac anomaly, such as aortic valve obstruction Can lead to cardiac failure and death |
Endocardial fibroelastosis
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Tropical African countries
Children and young adults Fibrosis of the endocardium and subendocardium restricts ventricular volume and compliance, diastolic filling is reduced and cardiac failure |
Endomyocardial fibrosis
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Lepidic cells seen in
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Myxomas
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Complications of myxomas
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Valve obstruction/embolism
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PECULIAR structures resembling poorly formed glands or vessels are characteristic of
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Myxomas
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Myxomas are Benign
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Notes
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Most common primary tumor of the heart in children and associated with tuberous sclerosis
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Rhabdomyoma
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What is this?
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Infective endocarditis
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Nonbacterial Thrombotic Endocarditis
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NBTE caused by sepsis is called
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Marantic Endocarditis
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Mucinous tumors of ovary, pancreas, and GI tract can cause
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NBTE
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Yellow white fibrotic patch, mucopolysaccarhide material, think
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Carcinoid Lesion
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Remember the left side of the heart is protected in carcinoid due to
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1) Metabolized by liver
2) Inactivated by the monoamine oxidase system in the pulmonary |
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Remember HCM also known as
Assymetric septal hypertrophy Idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis Hyptertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy |
Notes
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