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- Bradykinin causes cough. Losartan decreased bradykinin
- Patients with aortic dissection usually present with HYPERtension
- Heart failure (weight gain, peripheral edema, worsening exertional dyspnea, orthopnea, high N-terminal pro-BNP)+no chest pain, Q waves or ST segment change - elevation in troponin is due to heart failure
- Alveolar pressure is greater than pulmonary artery pressure at lung apices
- Apixaban is factor Xa inhibitor. Bivalirudin, hirudin, argatroban and dabigatran are direct thrombin inhibitors
- TEER reduces mortality and heart failure hospitalizations for heart failure patients with moderate-to-severe MR who have persistent symptoms despite optimal GDMT
- Amiodarone addition to digoxin followed by nausea, vomiting, confusion, and symptomatic VT - treatment discontinue digoxin and administer digoxin-specific antibodies
- Caesarean section less than 5 months ago, crackles, systolic murmur, S3 gallop - peripartum cardiomyopathy
- Restrictive cardiomyopathy shows reduced medial mitral annular e′ velocity by doppler tissue imaging
- Red discoloration of hands after cold exposure, disappears when rewarmed, family history of Raynaud phenomenon, no pain, no pallor or acrocyanosis - diagnosis normal physiologic cold response