
#102 Echo in Pulmonary Hypertension: 5 Pearls Segment
Core IM | Internal Medicine Podcast
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Physiologic Illusions - What Causes High Pulmonary Artery Pressures?
Ana, you know, i got to agree with you, a boiling this down to these three physiologic insults that can cause high pummin pressures makes it much less intimidating and will probably help me treas sooner what the appropriate work up might be. So we get our echo back. It's got this high palmery artery systolic pressure. Now how do we use the echo to help us understand what our patients might have as their path of his insult? Ah, another humbling reminder that patients don't fit into these nice, neat physiologic insult buckets, and multiple things can be at play. Ok, so let's sum up pearl three, which really is a
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