André Martin Mansoor
André Martin Mansoor

@AndreMansoor

6 Tweets 21 reads Jan 06, 2022
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A young man is admitted to the hospital with malaise and fever. You examine his hands and find these tender nodules.
This should generate a hypothesis.
(Heart sounds in this thread best heard with headphones or a decent computer speaker)
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With your hypothesis in mind, you listen to the patient's heart. You anticipate what you might hear.
"The ears can't hear what the mind doesn't know."
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Based on the holosystolic murmur at the apex that you anticipated you would hear, you diagnose the patient with mitral valve endocarditis. Two days later, his heart sounds change. Take a listen.
An additional diagnosis has now been made.
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Two days later, you know longer hear the pericardial friction rub. In fact, his heart sounds are difficult to hear at all. He develops hypotension and pre-syncope and his neck looks like this:
This should generate a hypothesis.
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You confirm your hypothesis with a bedside maneuver (video features a different patient with the same diagnosis):
6/6
You have diagnosed infective endocarditis of the mitral valve with pericardial involvement, evolving to pericardial effusion with cardiac tamponade. All with your eyes and ears.
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