D/D of Kussmaul's Sign - Paradoxical Increase in JVP during Inspiration
Kussmaul's Sign is a Paradoxical Increase in JVP during Inspiration.
CAUSES==> Anything that would Raise the Pressures in the Right Atria. One Sight Below and you Won't Need a mnemonic. :)
- Severe Rt. Sided Heart failure
- Tricuspid Atresia
- Chronic Constrictive Pericarditis
- Restrictive Pericarditis
- Cardiac Temponade ( Sometimes)
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