- Irregularly irregular - Atrial fibrillating
- Slow-rising pulse - Aortic stenosis
- Collapsing pulse - Aortic regurgitation
- Bounding pulse - Acute CO2 retention, hepatic failure, sepsis
- Radiofemoral delay - Coarctation of aorta
- Jerky pulse - Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, Mitral regurgitation
- Pulsus bisferiens - Mixed aortic valve disease, Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy
- Pulsus paradoxus - Constrictive pericarditis, Cardiac tamponade
Saturday, 22 September 2012
Revision boxes - Cardiovascular
Conditions indicated by pulses
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