The LITFL Clinical Case Collection includes over 200 Q&A style clinical cases to assist ‘Just-in-Time Learning’ and ‘Life-Long Learning’. Cases are categorised by speciality and can be interrogated by keyword from the Clinical Case searchable database.

Cardiovascular Curveballs

• Curveball 013: Wide, Complex and Troublesome
• Curveball 012: No Radial Pulse
• Curveball 011: Pulmonary Embolism
• Curveball 010: Exogenous Calcium Embolism
• Curveball 009: Tetraology of Fallot and BT shunts
• Curveball 008: DeBakey Dissection
• Curveball 007: Trouble-Shooting the IABP
• Curveball 006: The Paradoxical Alternative
• Curveball 005: Intra-aortic balloon pump
• Curveball 004: Something’s Not Right
• Curveball 003: Cardiac Megacode
• Curveball 002: Sudden Onset Blue Leg
• Curveball 001: Broken-Hearted Chest Drain

• Physical examination is normal
• Aetiology is unknown but patients usually have a normal life span
• Also referred to as “Effort Syndrome” as symptoms resemble those of fatigue following effort in healthy individuals