Results for “valvular heart disease”

A 76-year-old man reports that for three months he has felt light-headed and has twice nearly fainted walking up the hill to the shops, together with a tight fe…

Cardiovascular · Pre-internship · common

A 52-year-old Aboriginal woman from a community in Cape York presents with a week of palpitations and breathlessness on walking to the store. She had several ep…

Cardiovascular · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 48-year-old woman has a new holosystolic murmur and exertional dyspnoea. Echocardiography shows a regurgitant volume from the left ventricle into the left atr…

Biomedical Science · Mechanisms of disease · common

A 76-year-old man is brought to the emergency department after losing consciousness while pushing his lawnmower up a slope. His wife reports he went pale and co…

Cardiovascular · Clinical rotations · common