Cardiovascular system topics for USMLE Step 2 CK
Cardiovascular system topics for USMLE Step 2 CK
Cardiovascular Disorders
Health and Health Maintenance
- Arterial hypertension
- Atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease; hyperlipidemia
- Prevention of rheumatic heart disease, thromboembolic disease, pulmonary emboli, bacterial endocarditis
Mechanisms of Disease
- Cardiac output, resistance, central venous pressure
- Valvular stenosis, incompetence
- Congenital heart disease
- Regulation of blood pressure
- Disorders of the arteries and veins
Diagnosis
- Dysrhythmias; palpitations, syncope (eg, premature beats; paroxysmal tachycardias; atrial flutter and fibrillation; bradycardias; ventricular fibrillation; cardiac arrest)
- Heart failure (congestive, diastolic, systolic dysfunction), dyspnea, fatigue, peripheral edema of cardiac origin (eg, chronic heart failure; cor pulmonale)
- Ischemic heart disease; chest pain of cardiac origin (eg, angina pectoris; coronary insufficiency; myocardial infarction)
- Diseases of the myocardium (eg, hypertrophic; myocarditis)
- Diseases of the pericardium (eg, acute pericarditis; chronic constrictive pericardiopathy; pericardial effusion; pericardial tamponade)
- Valvular heart disease (eg, acute rheumatic fever; mitral and aortic valve disorders; infective endocarditis)
- Congenital cardiovascular disease (eg, patent ductus arteriosus; atrial septal defect; ventricular septal defect; endocardial cushion defect; tetralogy of Fallot; coarctation of the aorta)
- Systemic hypotension, hypovolemia, cardiogenic shock; cyanosis
- Arterial hypertension (eg, essential; secondary)
- Atherosclerosis – lipoproteins
- Disorders of the great vessels (eg, dissecting aortic aneurysm; ruptured aneurysm; aortoiliac disease)
- Peripheral arterial vascular diseases, vasculitis (eg, polyarteritis; temporal arteritis; arteriovenous fistula)
- Diseases of the veins, peripheral edema (eg, varicose veins; thrombophlebitis; deep venous thrombosis)
- Traumatic injury
Principles of Management
(With emphasis on topics covered in Diagnosis)
- Pharmacotherapy only
- Management decision (treatment/diagnosis steps)
- Treatment only
source: usmle.org
Categorised as: Cardiovascular 2