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- Restrictive muscular VSD, fever - next blood cultures
- Digoxin PO to IV, decrease dose 25% to maintain digoxin level
- DVT, apixaban 10 mg BID for 7 days, then 5 mg BID
- Apical HCM shows deeply inverted precordial T waves
- During pregnancy four-chamber cardiac enlargement and severe, global reduction of biventricular systolic function - peripartum cardiomyopathy, high risk of relapse of PPCM in subsequent pregnancies
- With Loeys-Dietz syndrome, aortic repair is recommended based on CTA or MRA ≤4.4 cm
- Female, >60 years of age, smoker, other vascular disease, dull abdominal pain after meals, weight loss - mesenteric ischemia, abdominal CT angiography
- AVR, fever, AR, new long first degree AV block - diagnosis prosthetic valve abscess, do TEE with surgical consultation
- Lyme carditis shows atrioventricular nodal block
- Mechanical AVR, sporadic medical care, dyspnea on exertion, systolic murmur - valve thrombosis, peak aortic velocity above 4 m/s