Hey, what's up everybody. This is Eric and you're listening to the med geeks

podcast. Today we're doing part two of my discussion on heart failure with

none other than the cardio nerds. If you haven't heard part one please go back and listen to

part one which was fantastic but on part two we're actually going to take a deep

dive on a few different topics. We lead off with pathophysiology and after that we

talk about clinical presentation of patients with heart failure.

What do they look like? What do they sound like? What do you see on physical exam? What are the key things from the history?

And then finally, for the end of this part two episode, we are going to discuss both labs and imaging.

Now, one thing I found very fascinating about this discussion was, heart failure really is a clinical diagnosis and that means you really only need a

patient in a good history and a good physical to make the diagnosis of heart failure.

But the labs and the imaging that we can order for these patients help to categorize

and describe the type of heart failure, as well as the severity of the heart failure.

And if you listen to this podcast all the way to the end, you're going to pick up a ton of useful pearls.

So without further ado, let's get started. Okay, so right now I want to really do a deep dive with Dr. Minder going into pathophysiology of heart failure.

So Dan, why don't you take it away and just jump right in with pathophysiology?

Oh my God, Eric, I am, I thought you never ask.

I've been, if you saw me here, I'm in a call room,

I'm rocking in a chair just like ready to

ready to roll here. I'll take this one. So everything that we've talked about is really amazing,

you know, especially staging and

heart failure association is really important because that's how you actually see your patient.

That's how you meet them in the ER, urgent care

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