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diagnose AAA: US what size AAA do you treat with surgery > 5 cm or growing >0.5 cm/year pain out of proportion to abdominal PE mesenteric ischemia-- triade- POP, afib, recently on digitalis pericardal knock constrictive pericarditis-> this is a loud s3 how do you diagnose constrictive pericarditis echo shows pericardial thickening and normal left ventricular function what murmur "widened pulse pressure" AR -> this is when systolic pulse- diastolic pulse is >40 how do you diagnose COA echo/doppler right sided heart failure blood backs up to the _______ periphery, will see JVD, hepatosplenomegaly, peripheral edema, ascities, left sided heart failure blood backs up to the ____ lungs, will see orthopnea, PND, dyspnea on exertion, s2 gallop, crackles what blood test will be elevated in CHF BNP MCC Right heart failure left heart failure