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  #1

You are shown a patient in the medical ward with
  1. -tachypnoea
  2. -cyanosis
  3. -chest basal rales
  4. JVD
  5. S3 -present

Investigation
  1. Cardiac index > 2.5
  2. Pulmonary capillary Wedge pressure >15

What will be your thought about the diagnosis of the patient ?


  #2

Diastolic heart failure.

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  #3

why not dilatative CMP?


  #4

oh, sorry, I didn't notice cardiac index; it now sounds more like diastolic failure








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