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Cardiology: Diseases of the Pericardium
for USMLE Step One
Howard J. Sachs, MD www.12DaysinMarch.com
Part I: Overview and Acute Pericarditis
Part II: Tamponade and Constrictive Pericarditis
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Cardiology: Diseases of the Pericardium
for USMLE Step One
Available for download at www.12DaysinMarch.com
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The Language of Pericardial Disorders
Acute Pericarditis
(Cardiac) Tamponade Physiology
Constrictive Pericarditis
• Pericardial Knock/Pericardial Calcification • Predisposing condition (e.g. Radiation Therapy) • Kussmaul’s Sign
• Shock • Pulsus Paradoxus
• Virtually all patients will be described with positional chest pain • ‘3-phase’ friction rub
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Cardiac Tamponade
• When to suspect? – Pulsus Paradoxus (JVD, hypotension = Beck’s Triad)
– Transmural AWMI (days 5-10)
– Aortic dissection/Trauma
– Infection/Neoplasm
Hemopericardium
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Cardiac Tamponade
• When to suspect? – Pulsus Paradoxus (JVD, hypotension = Beck’s Triad)
– Transmural AWMI (days 5-10) • Macrophage Phase
– Aortic dissection/Trauma • Hemopericardium
– Infection/Neoplasm
Neoplasm may slowly accumulate fluid in
contrast to dissection or trauma.
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Cardiac Tamponade
• When to suspect? – Pulsus Paradoxus
Definition: a drop in systolic BP of > 10 mmHg with inspiration
To understand why this happens, is to understand tamponade?
Implied: there is some degree of BP drop associated with inspiration (increased venous return) at baseline.
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Cardiac Tamponade
• Pericardial Sac – Fibroelastic tissue
• Distensible
– < 50 ml of serous fluid – Intrapericardial Pressure
• +5 to minus 5 mmHg
Normal Pressure Volume Relationship
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Cardiac Tamponade
• Pericardial Sac – Fibroelastic tissue
• Distensible
– < 50 ml of serous fluid – Intrapericardial Pressure
• 5 to minus 5 mmHg
What happens if fluid accumulates in that fibroelastic sac and exceeds the
limits of pericardial stretch?
FYI: this does depend on speed of fluid accumulation
e.g. neoplasm
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Cardiac Tamponade
Pulsus Paradoxus: results from a direct competition between the right and left sides of the heart for limited space.
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Cardiac Tamponade
1. All cardiac chambers are compressed to some extent
2. For the right heart to fill more (during inspiration), the
left heart must fill less.
Pericardial pressures exceed diastolic pressures
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Cardiac Tamponade
1. All cardiac chambers are compressed to some extent
2. For the right heart to fill more (during inspiration), the
left heart must fill less.
3. Since the free wall of the RV cannot distend (into the
pericardial space), the interventricular septum must bulge into the left chamber.
Result: Functional collapse of the LV chamber with decrease in CO during inspiration – clinically translated as pulsus
paradoxus
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Cardiac Tamponade
Physiologic correlate of pulsus paradoxus VR RA/RV pressure LV CO
(decreased LVEDV SV)
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Cardiac Tamponade
• When to suspect? – Pulsus Paradoxus: the Language of Tamponade
Definition: a drop in systolic BP of > 10 mmHg with inspiration
The BP cuff is inflated to 120 mmHg and then slowly decreased. At 100 mm Hg Korotkoff sounds are only heard during expiration. At 80 mm Hg, they are heard
throughout the respiratory cycle.
The pulse becomes undetectable during inspiration
How will this be described in vignettes?
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Cardiac Tamponade
The BP cuff is inflated to 120 mmHg and then slowly decreased. At 100 mm Hg Korotkoff sounds are only heard during expiration. At 80 mm Hg, they are heard
throughout the respiratory cycle.
The pulse becomes undetectable during inspiration
What was the most likely cause of this finding?
SLE Coxsackie LV rupture
What is the most likely diagnosis? Effusion
Pericarditis Tamponade
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Cardiac Tamponade
• Physical Exam – Pulsus paradoxus/Hypotension
– JVD present
– Kussmaul’s sign is absent • Inspiration decreases the pericardial pressure
– Distant/Muffled Heart Sounds • Friction rub (if tamponade complicates acute pericarditis)
Beck’s Triad
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Cardiac Tamponade
• Pericardial Sac – Fibroelastic tissue
• Distensible
– < 50 ml of serous fluid – Intrapericardial Pressure
• +5 to minus 5 mmHg
Intrapericardial Pressure mirrors the normal swings in intrathoracic
pressures during respiration
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Cardiac Tamponade
• Physical Exam – Pulsus paradoxus/Hypotension
– JVD present
– Kussmaul’s sign is absent • Inspiration decreases the intrapericardial pressure
– Distant/Muffled Heart Sounds • Friction rub (if tamponade complicates acute pericarditis)
Beck’s Triad
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Cardiac Tamponade
• Physical Exam – Pulsus paradoxus/Hypotension
– JVD present
– Kussmaul’s sign is absent • Inspiration decreases the intrapericardial pressure
– Distant/Muffled Heart Sounds • Friction rub (if tamponade complicates acute pericarditis)
Beck’s Triad
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Cardiac Tamponade
• Data – CXR
– EKG
– Echocardiogram – effusion plus… • RA collapse: sensitive
• RV/LV collapse: specific
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Cardiac Tamponade
• Data: CXR (depends on speed of accumulation) – EKG
– Echocardiogram
Globular Water Bottle
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Cardiac Tamponade: EKG
Low Voltage < 5 mm limb leads < 10 mm precordial leads
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Cardiac Tamponade: EKG
Electrical alternans Varying QRS amplitude between beats
Swinging of the heart
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Cardiac Tamponade
• When to suspect? – Pulsus Paradoxus (JVD, hypotension = Beck’s Triad) – Transmural AWMI (days 5-10) – Aortic dissection/Trauma – Infection/Neoplasm
• Do Not Confuse (Pulsus Paradoxus): – Asthma/Respiratory Distress
• Correlates with degree of airway obstruction/lung hyperinflation
– Constrictive Pericarditis
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The Language of Pericardial Disorders
Acute Pericarditis
(Cardiac) Tamponade Physiology
Constrictive Pericarditis
• Pericardial Knock/Pericardial Calcification • Predisposing condition (e.g. Radiation Therapy) • Kussmaul’s Sign
• Shock • Pulsus Paradoxus
• Virtually all patients will be described with positional chest pain • ‘3-phase’ friction rub
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Constrictive Pericarditis
Kussmaul’s Sign
Paradoxical increase in the jugular venous pulse during inspiration
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Normal Physiologic Response to Inspiration: Intrathoracic mm Hg Venous Return
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Ventricle expands to accommodate the volume. The jugular venous pressure falls (flattening of neck veins)
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What happens if I encase the heart in a very stiff, inelastic, fibrocalcific shell…
…and the ventricles cannot expand to
accommodate the increased volume generated during inspiration?
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X
Kussmaul’s sign
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X
Kussmaul’s sign Constrictive Pericarditis
Not a pumping problem It is a ventricular filling problem
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X
Kussmaul’s sign Constrictive Pericarditis
Derivative One: If you can’t fill the ventricle
and blood backs up to the jugular vein, where else might this be manifest?
Not a pumping problem It is a ventricular filling problem
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Constrictive Pericarditis: a ventricular filling problem
Congestive Hepatopathy (aka ‘nutmeg liver’) • Manifestation of right-sided heart failure • The ‘nutmeg’ pattern is results from
centrilobular hemorrhagic necrosis
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Constrictive Pericarditis
• Etiologies: – Uremia, Tuberculosis
– Post-Cardiotomy Syndrome
– Radiation Therapy
• Physical Exam – Kussmaul’s sign
– Pericardial knock
– +/- Pulsus Paradoxus Pathologic Description: Dense, thick, fibrocalcific scar
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Constrictive Pericarditis
• Etiologies: – Uremia, Tuberculosis
– Post-Cardiotomy Syndrome
– Radiation Therapy
• Physical Exam – Kussmaul’s sign
– Pericardial knock
– +/- Pulsus Paradoxus Pathologic Description: Dense, thick, fibrocalcific scar Reed-Sternberg Cell
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Constrictive Pericarditis
• Physical Exam – Pericardial knock
– Kussmaul’s sign
– +/- Pulsus Paradoxus
Pericardial Knock: Sound made by ventricle ‘banging
into’ the calcified pericardium
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Constrictive Pericarditis Cardiac Tamponade
Kussmaul’s Negative Pulsus Paradoxus (+)
Kussmaul’s Positive Pulsus Paradoxus (+/-)
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Constrictive Pericarditis
• Do Not Confuse: – Ventricular Filling Problems due to Impaired Relaxation
• Restrictive Heart Disease: Amyloid is prototype • Diastolic Heart Failure (HFpEF)
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The Language of Pericardial Disorders
Acute Pericarditis
(Cardiac) Tamponade Physiology
Constrictive Pericarditis
• Pericardial Knock/Pericardial Calcification • Predisposing condition (e.g. Radiation Therapy) • Kussmaul’s Sign
• Shock • Pulsus Paradoxus
• Virtually all patients will be described with positional chest pain • ‘3-phase’ friction rub
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