This document discusses aortic stenosis and aortic regurgitation. It defines aortic stenosis as a narrowing of the aortic valve opening, with common causes being a bicuspid aortic valve, calcification, or rheumatic heart disease. Symptoms include angina, syncope, and dyspnea. Diagnosis involves echocardiography. Treatment options are balloon valvuloplasty or valve replacement. Aortic regurgitation is defined as retrograde blood flow through the aortic valve during diastole. Common causes are rheumatic fever, hypertension, or a bicuspid valve. Symptoms progress from palpitations to dyspnea. Physical exam may reveal a wide pulse pressure.
Aortic stenosis is a valvular heart disease resulting in reduction of blood flow to the body and making the heart work harder. The heart may weaken causing chest pain, fatigue and shortness of breath.
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Aortic stenosis is a valvular heart disease resulting in reduction of blood flow to the body and making the heart work harder. The heart may weaken causing chest pain, fatigue and shortness of breath.
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Aortic insufficiency (AI), also known as aortic regurgitation (AR), is the leaking of the aortic valve of the heart that causes blood to flow in the reverse direction
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Defecation
Normal defecation begins with movement in the left colon, moving stool toward the anus. When stool reaches the rectum, the distention causes relaxation of the internal sphincter and an awareness of the need to defecate. At the time of defecation, the external sphincter relaxes, and abdominal muscles contract, increasing intrarectal pressure and forcing the stool out
The Valsalva maneuver exerts pressure to expel faeces through a voluntary contraction of the abdominal muscles while maintaining forced expiration against a closed airway. Patients with cardiovascular disease, glaucoma, increased intracranial pressure, or a new surgical wound are at greater risk for cardiac dysrhythmias and elevated blood pressure with the Valsalva maneuver and need to avoid straining to pass the stool.
Normal defecation is painless, resulting in passage of soft, formed stool
CONSTIPATION
Constipation is a symptom, not a disease. Improper diet, reduced fluid intake, lack of exercise, and certain medications can cause constipation. For example, patients receiving opiates for pain after surgery often require a stool softener or laxative to prevent constipation. The signs of constipation include infrequent bowel movements (less than every 3 days), difficulty passing stools, excessive straining, inability to defecate at will, and hard feaces
IMPACTION
Fecal impaction results from unrelieved constipation. It is a collection of hardened feces wedged in the rectum that a person cannot expel. In cases of severe impaction the mass extends up into the sigmoid colon.
DIARRHEA
Diarrhea is an increase in the number of stools and the passage of liquid, unformed feces. It is associated with disorders affecting digestion, absorption, and secretion in the GI tract. Intestinal contents pass through the small and large intestine too quickly to allow for the usual absorption of fluid and nutrients. Irritation within the colon results in increased mucus secretion. As a result, feces become watery, and the patient is unable to control the urge to defecate. Normally an anal bag is safe and effective in long-term treatment of patients with fecal incontinence at home, in hospice, or in the hospital. Fecal incontinence is expensive and a potentially dangerous condition in terms of contamination and risk of skin ulceration
HEMORRHOIDS
Hemorrhoids are dilated, engorged veins in the lining of the rectum. They are either external or internal.
FLATULENCE
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FECAL INCONTINENCE
Fecal incontinence is the inability to control passage of feces and gas from the anus. Incontinence harms a patient’s body image
PREPARATION AND GIVING OF LAXATIVESACCORDING TO POTTER AND PERRY,
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9. Angina Syncope
It may occur due to
exertion and relieve
by rest.
Sometimes, Coronary
artery disease may
coexist.
It occurs due to
peripheral
vasodilatation but
unchanged cardiac
output
It occurs due to
exertion.
10. Physical Examination
Pulse:
low volume slow rising
Narrow pulse pressure
Apex beat may shift to left (down ward & outside
due to LVH )
Heaving apex
Ejection systolic murmur rough character best
heard in Rt. 2nd ICS (AA)
Prominent S4
16. Aortic Regurgitation: overview
AR is a condition due to inadequate closure of
the aortic valve leaflets leading to abnormal
retrograde flow of blood through the aortic
valve during cardiac diastole.
It can be induced either by damage to and
dysfunction of the aortic valve leaflets or by
distortion or dilatation of the aortic root and
ascending aorta
In the developing world, the most common cause
of AR is rheumatic heart disease. However, in
developed countries, AR is most often due to
aortic root dilation or a congenital bicuspid
aortic valve .[1]
17. Causes of Aortic Regurgitation
Leaflet abnormalities Aortic root or ascending aorta
Rheumatic fever Systemic hypertension
Endocarditis Aortitis (eg, syphilis)
Trauma
Bicuspid aortic valve Ankylosing spondylitis
Trauma/ Dissecting aneurysm
Marfan syndrome/ EDS
Inflammatory bowel disease
AR is seen more commonly in men than in women.
18. Pathophysiology of aortic
regurgitation
Aortic regurgitation
LV volume
LV mass
LV dysfunction
LV failure
stroke
volume
Systolic
BP
Diastolic BP
Wide pulse pressure
hyperdynamic circulation
19. Palpitation
Initial symptom due to vigrous contraction of volume
overload LV
Angina
Less common as C/F AS
Dyspnoea
Initially on exertion
PND
Clinical history
20. Physical finding
Pulse
Very good volume & wide pulse pressure
Rapid rise & collapse with markedly ed pulse
pressure (water hammer pulse / Corrigan pulse)
21. Findings are a/w hyperdynamic pulse
deMusset's sign A head bob occurring with each cardiac cycle
Mueller's sign Systolic pulsations of the uvula.
Landolfi sign Change in size of pupil with each beat
Quincke's
pulses
visible Capillary pulsations in the nailbeds after holding the tip
of the nail.
Traube's sign A pistol shot murmur (systolic and diastolic sounds) heard over
the femoral arteries.
Duroziez's sign A systolic and diastolic bruit heard when the femoral artery is
partially compressed.to and fro murmur
Hill's sign Normal BP in LL > UL
Normal difference is up to 20
In AR the difference > 20
24. Treatment
Medical treatment (for heart failure)
- Diuretics, Digoxin, salt restriction
- Vasodilators
- Endocarditis prophylaxis
Surgical treatment (in severe cases)
AVR
.
Editor's Notes
The aortic valve is the valve located between the left ventricle of the heart and the aorta, the largest artery in the body, which carries the entire output of blood to the systemic circulation.
Patient is asymptomatic for many years
AR is a condition due to inadequate closure of the aortic valve leaflets leading to abnormal retrograde flow of blood through the aortic valve during cardiac diastole.
AR may be caused by either valvular or aortic root pathology. Valvular abnormalities that may result in AR include bicuspid aortic valve (the most common congenital cause), rheumatic fever, infective endocarditis, collagen vascular diseases, and degenerative aortic valve disease.
Abnormalities of the ascending aorta, in the absence of valve pathology, may also cause AR, such as may occur with longstanding uncontrolled hypertension, Marfan syndrome, idiopathic aortic dilation, syphilitic aortitis, giant cell arteritis, Takayasu arteritis, ankylosing spondylitis, Whipple disease, and other spondyloarthropathies.
The absence of a wide pulse pressure and of the characteristic arterial auscultatory signs of chronic AR in patients with acute AR is thought to be due to the much higher LV end-diastolic pressure (LVEDP) in the acute form. The acute development of a severe aortic valvular leak causes a much higher LVEDP in the normal-sized LV of patients with acute AR. Patients with chronic AR commonly have a dilated LV with increased compliance capable of accommodating large blood volumes without a significant rise of LVEDP.
Sherman sign ; prominently located and palpated dorsalis pedis pulse
Landolfi sign: alternating constriction and dilatation of pupil
Duroziez sign: systolic portion of murmur was caused by forward flow into the lower extremity and the diastolic segment was caused by aortic regurgitation towards the heart.
Seagull murmur: it is murmur with musical qualities such as that heard occasionally in aortic insufficiency. A sea gull cry murmur is defined as a murmur imitating the cooing sound of a seagull.this type of murmur is typically characterised by a music timbre and a high frequency and may occur as a result of various valve disease.it is usually described as a sign of tight calcific aortic stenosis when the murmur high frequency components are transmitted to the lower left sternal border and the cardiac apex during most of the systole (gallavardin phenomenon).in this condition,the typical harsh timbre of the ejective murmur tends to assume a musical high pitched quality ,resembling that of mitral regurgitation which may be reminiscent of the cry of a seagull. A protodiastolic murmur with similar characteristics ,typically in decrescendo ,may occur in severe AR particularly when the flow presents high velocities. However, a seagulls cry murmur may also be the sign of MR or prolapse. Similarly the muscial and holosystolic sound reflects the presence of high frequency components due to high velocities of reflow.