Heart Failure and Dilated Cardiomyopathy

What this deck covers

Heart Failure and Dilated Cardiomyopathy in twelve clinical teaching cases with worked explanations. Each case gives you a clinical vignette, four options, the correct answer, and an explanation of why each of the other three is wrong.

The 12 cases, in order

1. Recognition in a baby
2. The extra sound
3. The examination in a baby
4. Reading the lungs
5. The thickness of the wall
6. What to report
7. Measuring the function
8. A murmur that was not there
9. Where it came from
10. The chronic prescription
11. The cold child
12. What happens afterwards

Diagnoses and management options tested

Across the twelve cases you are asked to choose between options such as: Heart failure, Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, A cow’s milk protein allergy, Recurrent viral bronchiolitis, A split second heart sound, An early diastolic murmur at the base, A pericardial knock, as in constriction, Bilateral bronchopneumonia, Acute respiratory distress syndrome, Widespread viral bronchiolitis, Pulmonary oedema, Dilated cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, Restrictive cardiomyopathy, Constrictive pericarditis, A large pericardial effusion, A dilated left ventricle, spherical in shape, Severe left ventricular hypertrophy, Rheumatic damage to the mitral leaflets, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, An anthracycline given in infancy, Viral myocarditis, now chronic, An idiopathic familial cardiomyopathy, More furosemide, until the symptoms settle, A beta-blocker now, at full dose, Digoxin alone, and review in three months.

Clinical pearls from this deck

• Heart failure in a baby announces itself as a feeding problem and a breathing problem, not as a heart problem.
• A jugular venous pressure is not assessable in an infant — short neck, no cooperation, and a rapid heart rate.

The twelve worked cases in this deck, with the images and the full explanation of every option, are part of Pediatric Case Review membership. See what is included.

More from this system: all cardiology decks and question sets · pediatric reference values.