Hypertension Part 3 (Assessment, Management and Secondary Causes)

Weary traveller, let Rahul, Bec and Jupiter’s 79 moons be your guides as we haul you up the third and final segment of the hypertension series. At the summit we take you on a high pressure hike through the assessment and secondary causes of the old HTN under the auspices of a curiously one dimensional character called Mountain.

Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease

If you’re jonesing for some teaching on rheumatic fever, we’ve got the podcast for you.

 

Link dump:

Clinical manifestations of rheumatic fever by time course

 

Sarcoidosis

Frequently thought of, infrequently seen. Have a listen so you too can chip in with “could it be sarcoid?” at roughly appropriate times.

Heart failure evaluation

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So your heart failure sense is tingling, but how do you know for sure? Rahul and Davor take you through how to work up someone with suspected heart failure.

Here’s the quizlet

And some links:

Good resources that show how to evaluate chest X-rays for pulmonary oedema can be found here and here

American Journal of Medicine paper of clinical heart failure evaluation

Heart failure aetiology

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Why are people mean to each other? Why can’t we all be friends?

We in no way address those questions, but we do have some lists that any self-respecting young doctor should have readily accessible.

Here’s the quizlet