Adult CXR Cases 024
March 2022 Adult Emergency Medicine Chest X-ray interpretation with Daniel Escobar, Angela Pikus, and Alex Blackwell
Echo: Aortic regurgitation
Helen Rimington: Assessing aortic regurgitation and recognizing haemodynamically significant aortic regurgitation using transthoracic echo with MedMastery
Comms Lab: Referral Pushback
Comms Lab 39: Mastering the Phone Referral: Dealing With Referral Pushback, the 5 Simple Strategies
Right Ventricular Failure
Right Ventricular Failure: Unrecognised high mortality equal to that of LV failure. Right heart is a low-pressure system, good at dealing with volume (preload) to a point, does poorly with increased afterload (i.e. PH).
Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (AHC)
Yamaguchi syndrome: Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (AHC) Hypertrophic non-obstructive cardiomyopathy with giant negative T waves
Pancoast Syndrome
Pancoast Syndrome occurs secondary to local compression of brachial plexus and sympathetic chain by superior (pulmonary) sulcus tumors.
Pancoast Tumour
Pancoast Tumour is a primary bronchogenic carcinoma which arises in the apex of the lung at the superior pulmonary sulcus.
Henry Pancoast
Henry Khunrath Pancoast (1875 – 1939) was an American radiologist. The Pancoast tumour and Pancoast syndrome is named after him
Louis Fridericia
Louis Sigurd Fridericia (1881-1947) was a Danish physician. Eponymous term - Fridericia's formula: QT interval duration related to the cube root of the RR
Henri Mondor
Henri Mondor (1885 – 1962) was a French physician, surgeon, and a historian. Mondor disease (1939); Penile Mondor disease (1958)
Mondor disease
Mondor disease is a rare, benign condition characterized by thrombophlebitis of the subcutaneous veins of the breast and anterolateral chest wall.
Henry Bazett
Henry Cuthbert Bazett (1885 – 1950) was an English physiologist. Eponym: Bazett's formula to calculate QTc interval for varying heart rates