Study notes

Aortic stenosis: surveillance and valve intervention

Aortic regurgitation: causes

Aortic regurgitation: ventricular adaptation and failure

Clinical features of chronic and acute aortic regurgitation

Aortic stenosis in older adults and causes of aortic regurgitation

Clinical features of aortic regurgitation

Investigations in aortic regurgitation

Management of aortic regurgitation

Aortic regurgitation: examination, investigations and aortic root management

Tricuspid stenosis: aetiology and associations

Tricuspid stenosis: clinical findings and investigations

Management of tricuspid stenosis

Functional tricuspid regurgitation

Clinical features of tricuspid regurgitation

Management of tricuspid regurgitation

Pulmonary stenosis: origin and associations

Clinical examination in pulmonary stenosis

Investigations for pulmonary stenosis

Management of pulmonary stenosis

Pulmonary regurgitation and the Graham Steell murmur

Prosthetic heart valves: types and auscultatory findings

Prosthetic heart valves: anticoagulation and durability

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation

Recognition and mechanisms of prosthetic valve dysfunction

Infective endocarditis: sites and common organisms

TAVI deployment and endocarditis in older adults

Infective endocarditis: epidemiology and mortality

Infective endocarditis: susceptibility, vegetations and tissue injury

Infective endocarditis: organism sources and important associations

Organism-specific patterns of infective endocarditis

Modified Duke criteria for infective endocarditis

Clinical presentation of subacute infective endocarditis

Peripheral and systemic findings in subacute endocarditis

Splinter haemorrhages and acute or postoperative endocarditis

Investigations in suspected infective endocarditis

Antimicrobial choices and drug-level monitoring in endocarditis

Management principles and empirical therapy in infective endocarditis

Eligibility for short-course treatment of fully sensitive streptococcal endocarditis

Cardiac surgery in infective endocarditis

Antibiotic prophylaxis for endocarditis