Pre-Recorded Lecture
ILOs
Recognise heart failure (HF) on CXR…
- Big Heart
- Venous diversion
- Interstitial fluid (early heart failure)
- Alveolar fluid + pleural effusion (late heart failure)
- Let’s look at the heart in an echocardiogram
- Now, look at a cross-section of the heart on a CT scan…
- Here’s a labelled diagram of the heart, based on an X-ray…
- Let’s look at the left side of the heart on a CT…
- A CT angiogram of the heart, showing us the coronary circulation…
- Explain the different stages of congestive HF…
- Let’s remind ourselves of what a normal chest X-ray looks like…
- And then, let’s look at the other extreme. Extreme HF…
- Remember, there’s a stepwise progression in HF!
- Okay, remind us, what’s the first sign we’ll see of HF on a chest X-ray?
- So after that first sign, then what?
- If the pressure keeps building… then what are we gonna see?