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- Flu-like illness, high JVP, low precordial voltage - tamponade, echo IVC plethora
- Carvedilol has alpha- and beta-receptor blocking activity
- Long-term monitoring of patients with history of atrial fibrillation indicates that asymptomatic AF episodes occur more commonly than symptomatic episodes
- Asymmetric claudication, bruits, asymmetric pulses & BP, fever, high ESR - diagnosis Takayasu arteritis is 10 times more common in women than in men
- DM, HTN, microalbuminuria - treatment ACEi lisinopril
- ICD, purulent drainage at defibrillator pocket, no fever, blood cultures no organism - entire generator and lead system should be removed, and new system implanted on contralateral side after antibiotic therapy
- CXR prominent central pulmonary arteries and peripheral pruning - Eisenmenger syndrome
- Carotid pulses are brisk, CT dilated ascending aorta - BAV, TTE for dilation of aortic root or ascending thoracic aorta
- Effectiveness of loop diuretic agents is reduced by NSAIDs
- Fondaparinux selectively inhibits activated Xa