Essential Facts on the Go: Internal Medicine (8 page)

AHA/ACC Stages of Heart Faiure

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Treatment of Heart Failure

Approach to Patients with Acutely Decompensated Heart Failure

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Treatment of Heart Failure

Diuretics Used in the Management of Heart Failure

Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors in Heart Failure

Indications for Digoxin in Heart Failure

• Symptomatic patients on an ACE inhibitor (or ARB), β-blocker, and diuretic.

• Recurrent hospitalization with decompensation.

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Hypertension

Classification and Management of Blood Pressure for Adults

DBP, diastolic blood pressure; SBP, systolic blood pressure.

Drug abbreviations: ACEI, angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor; ARB, angiotensin receptor blocker; BB, beta-blocker; CCB, calcium channel blocker.

Cardiovascular Risk Factors

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Hypertension

Etiology of Hypertension

Guideline for Compelling Indications for Individual Drug Classes

PULMONARY

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Diagnostic Algorithm of Pleural Effusion

Reproduced with permission from Longo DL, et al.
Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine
, 18th ed. McGraw-Hill, 2012.

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Differential Diagnosis of Pleural Fluid