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Pathology | Medicine (MD/DO) School Study Aid

Acute Pericarditis Assessment

Pericardial Sac Inflammation

Sharp Chest Pain

Increased with Inspiration

Pain Decreased by Leaning Forward

Pericardial Friction Rub

Diffuse ST-Elevation

T Wave Inversion

Fever

May Be Asymptomatic

Cardiac Tamponade

2 mins

Acute Pericarditis Causes

Idiopathic

Infection

Trauma

Cardiac

Myocardial Infarction

Autoimmune Diseases

Uremia

Tumor

Radiation

2 mins

Acute Pericarditis Interventions

Treat Underlying Disorder

Antibiotics

Colchicine + NSAIDs

Corticosteroids

Place Patient Upright with Head of Bed at 45°

Pericardiocentesis

Pericardial Window

2 mins

Bacterial Endocarditis

Fever

New murmur

Janeway Lesions

Splinter Hemorrhages

Roth spots/round white spots on retina

Osler nodes/tender lesions on finger or toe pads

Anemia

2 mins

Duke Criteria for Infective Endocarditis

Blood Culture Positive

Endocardial Involvement

Fever

Immunologic Phenomena

Vascular Phenomena

Predisposition

Microbiological Evidence

Two Major Criteria, or

One Major and Three Minor Criteria, or

Five Minor Criteria

4 mins

Rheumatic Fever

Pharyngeal Infection with Strep Pyogenes (Group A Strep)

Rheumatic Heart Disease

Aschoff Bodies

Anitschkow's Cells

Early Death Due to Myocarditis

Migratory Polyarthritis

Subcutaneous Nodules

Erythema Marginatum

Chorea

Elevated ESR

2 mins

Cardiac Tamponade

Fluid in the Pericardial Sac

Pericarditis

Decreased Cardiac Output

Beck's Triad

Hypotension

Jugular Venous Distention (JVD)

Distant Heart Sounds

Pulsus Paradoxus

Electrical Alternans

Pericardiocentesis

1 min

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