Visual examination in cardiovascular diseases
Keywords:
cardiovascular diseases, consciousness, medical state, patient’s position, physical examination, somatotype, visual inspection, skin color, edema, nail clubbing, apex beat, vascular pulsation, vein swelling, stigmas of hyperlipoproteinemia. palmar sclerosis
Abstract
This publication continues a series of authorial lectures devoted to questions of Propaedeutics of Internal Diseases, primarily based on the material of cardiovascular, endocrine and bronchopulmonary diseases. Propaedeutics is widely interpreted by authors as an Introduction to Internal Medicine; therefore, these lectures also contain clinical pathophysiological material. The lectures compare the achievements and traditions of Russian classical therapeutic school with the principles of Internal Medicine that have evolved in the practice of foreign medical education. The third lecture is dedicated to methodology of physical examination and its data interpretation related visual inspection in cardiovascular pathology.
Published
2019-03-13
How to Cite
Stroev, Y., & Churilov, L. (2019). Visual examination in cardiovascular diseases. Russian Biomedical Research, 3(1), 9-17. Retrieved from https://ojs3.gpmu.org/index.php/biomedical-research/article/view/70
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