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Target Audience
Hematology/oncology fellows, attending faculty, and other health care professionals involved in the treatment of patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL).
Learning Objectives
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Learning objectives:
1. Define an electrocardiogram (ECG) and electrocardiography
2. Describe how dipoles generated by the heart produce the waveforms of the ECG
3. Describe the components of a normal electrocardiogram of a typical bipolar leads (limb II)
4. Differentiate between intervals and segments
5. Enlist some common indications for obtaining an ECG
Study Resources:
1. Chapter 11, Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology, 14th edition
2. Chapter 9, Human Physiology - From Cells to Systems, Lauralee Sherwood, 9th edition
3. Chapter 29, Ganong’s Review of Medical Physiology, 26th edition
4. Electrocardiogram, StatPearls - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK549803/
5. ECG in Medical Practice by ABM Abdullah, 4th edition
6. ECG Basics, http://www.nataliescasebook.com/tag/e-c-g-basics
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Acute rheumatic fever and VHD 3.pptx
1. D R B E R E K E T . A ( M D )
Acute rheumatic fever and VHD
DrBereket.A(MD)
2. Acute rheumatic fever
etiology
Group A B-hemolytic streptococcus
Rheumategenic strain : M serotype 1,3,5,6,18,24
M protein is virulence factor to resist phagositosis
Group A streptococcus with M protein has molecular
mimicry with human tissue
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3. epidemiology
Age group 5-15 yrs highest prevalence
Very rare< 5yrs
Only occur following post group A βhemolytic
streptococcal pharygitis
High prevalence developing countries
Over crowding important environmental factors
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4. pharyngitis
80 % pharyngitis is viral
20% pharyngitis due to GABHS
0.3-3% untreated GABHS pharyngitis
develop ARF
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10. carditis
Carditis is the only residual complication of ARF
40-60%
Mostly affect mitral valve :MR
Aortic valve secondly affected :AR
Tricuspid and pulmonic valve rare
Concomitant mitral and aortic common
Initially the commonest manifestation is valvular
insufficiency
Later stenosis
often combination of insufficiency and stenosis
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11. Murmurs of acute rheumatic fever
Regurgitation murmurs :MR common
AR
Carey Coombs :mid-diastolic apical murmur
associated with flow disturbances caused by
mitral valve deformity secondary to valvulitis
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12. Arthritis
Polyarthritis is the most frequent manifestation
of RF, occurring in up to 75%
It is typically very painful, migratory, and limited
to the major joints of the arms and legs
It is the earliest manifestation after streptococcal
pharyngitis
may be the only clinically apparent manifestation
in one third to half of patients
Inflammation in individual joints lasts 1 to 2
weeks and the polyarthritis as a whole resolves
in 1 month
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13. Chorea
5-35%
Emotional lability,uncoordinated
movement,clumsyness,facial grimace
Illigible hand writing
Hand spooning,pronater sign,milkmaid
manifests as involuntary, irregular movements,
fibrillatory muscle movements of the tongue
characteristic spooning with external rotation of
the hands
abolition of the movements with sleep.
delayed manifestation of ARF
a latency period of 1 to 7 months
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14. Subcutaneous nodules
10%
typically occur in patients with moderate to
severe rheumatic carditis
They occur several weeks after the onset of
cardiac findings
consist of firm nodules found over major
joints and bony prominences
are asymptomatic, sometimes evanescent,
typically resolving within weeks to 1 or 2
months
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15. erythema marginatum
<10%
typically occurs in conjunction with carditis
with a milder course
may last for months or years
It tends to occur over the trunk or proximal
extremities
early in the course of RF
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16. Treatment of ARF
3 approach
Treatment of GABH
Use of anti-inflammatory
supportive
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18. con
Salicilate for athritis and carditis
Glucocorticoid if sever carditis in congestive hear
failure
3-4wks
If CHF : diuretics,digoxine,bed rest
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23. Secondary prevention
To prevent recurrence
Recurrent attacks of rheumatic fever are common,
especially during the first 5 to 10 years after the
primary illness
Monthly B –penicillin
penicillin V
Erythromycin
Duration: life long for RVHD
for 5 yrs for ARF
up to a age 18 yrs
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25. RVHD
The most acquired heart disease in children and
young adult in developing countries.
Leaflet thicking,calcification,commusural fusion
Thicking,fusion of cordae tendinea
Doming
anterior mitral valve prolapse
Pure mital valve involvement
Mixed mitral, aortic valve
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27. Mitral stenosis
Rheumatic fever is by far the most common cause of
MS.
Rarely
congenital abnormalities
connective tissue disorders
left atrial tumors
More common in woman
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35. the mean survival rate
2 years in patients with heart failure
3 years in patients with Syncope
5 years in patients with angina
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39. Sign OF AR
wide pulse pressure
Collapsing pulse (Corrigan disease or water-hammer
pulse)
capillary pulsations(Quincke's pulse)
pistol-shot" (Traube's sign)
to-and-fro murmur (Duroziez's sign)
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40. Murmur of AR
early diastolic murmur
heard best in the third intercostal space along the left
sternal border
aneurysmal dilation of the aortic root : best along the
right sternal border
Austin Flint murmur: a soft, low-pitched rumbling
diastolic murmur
mid-systolic ejection murmur at base
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41. Severity of AR
left ventricular end-systolic diameters greater than
50 mm
an ejection fraction of less than 50%.
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42. Surgical interventions for AR
Symptomatic severe AR
Asymptomatic severe AR with LVEF<50%
LV dimension
ESD >55mm
EDD >75mm
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43. Tricuspid stenosis
most often rheumatic
usually associated with mitral or aortic disease
Rare causes
carcinoid syndrome
congenital valve abnormalities
leaflet tumors
vegetations
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44. Tricuspid Regurgitation
most often secondary to dilation
of the right ventricle and tricuspid annulus
endocarditis
carcinoid syndrome
congenital abnormalities
chest wall trauma
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45. Pulmonic stenosis
is most often congenital
Rheumatic deformity is rare
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46. Pulmonic regurgitation
the result of dilation of the annulus secondary to
pulmonary hypertension
the murmur of pulmonic regurgitation
early diastolic best heard at the second left intercostal
space
(Graham Steell murmur)
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