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- Troponin I has highest negative predictive value for MI
- Pseudoaneurysm has narrow base
- Cool, pale foot with non palpable pedal pulses, regular cardiac rhythm, faint dorsalis pedis on doppler, admit to hospital for an urgent diagnostic abdominal aortogram with runoff and potential endovascular revascularization
- Dyspnea, severe AS - SAVR, TAVR
- Large papillary fibroelastoma attaches to valves and subvalvular structures
- Heparin adverse effect - thrombocytopenia
- Bilateral leg edema, hyperpigmentation of ankles, ulcer above medial malleolus - chronic venous insufficiency
- Asymptomatic AS with normal LVEF & no change in signs or symptoms, aortic velocity is 2.0-2.9 m/sec - TTE for reevaluation 3-5 years
- In complete d TGA & complete AVCD interatrial communication is almost always present
- In congestive heart failure digoxin reduces hospitalization