CARDIOLOGY
AORTIC REGURGITATION
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Question
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What would you hear listening to a chest if there was consolidation present?
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Bronchial breath sounds plus crackles, reduced/dull percussion resonance.
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Vesicular breath sounds, reduced/dull percussion resonance.
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Bronchial breath sounds plus crackles, increased percussion resonance.
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Vesicular breath sounds, normal percussion resonance.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Crackles (rales) are caused by excessive fluid (secretions) in the airways. It is caused by either an exudate or a transudate. Exudate is due to lung infection e.g pneumonia while transudate such as congestive heart failure.
Detailed explanation-2: -Percussion produces sounds on a spectrum from flat to dull depending on the density of the underlying tissue. Areas of well-aerated lung will be resonant, or tympanic, to percussion. Dullness to percussion indicates denser tissue, such as zones of effusion or consolidation.
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