USMLE Step 1, 2 & 3 Cardiovascular Diseases and Treatments Part 1

USMLE Step 1, 2 & 3 Cardiovascular Diseases and their Treatments Review, Part 1. Your complete guide to cardiology for the USMLE medical boards. High-Yield rapid review updated for 2025. Our live Zoom USMLE tutoring session is in a question and answer format so you can test yourself on the content. The session covers the critical details of cardiovascular diseases and cardiovascular treatments, including the basic science, pathology, pharmacology, diagnostic tests, and treatments required for Step 1, Medicine/Family Medicine/Surgery NBME clinical shelf exams, Step 2, Step 3, ABIM internal medicine boards, ABFM family medicine boards. In Part 1 we discuss cardiovascular treatments for: Congenital cyanotic and acyanotic heart defects Primary hypertension, secondary hypertension, hypertensive emergency and urgency Stable angina, acute coronary syndrome (unstable angina, NSTEMI, STEMI) Hyperlipidemia Congestive heart failure Rheumatic fever, myocarditis Infective endocarditis Aortic stenosis, aortic regurgitation Mitral stenosis, mitral regurgitation Pericarditis, constrictive pericarditis Pericardial effusion, cardiac tamponade In Part 2 we discuss cardiovascular treatments for: Supraventricular tachycardia Atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, multifocal atrial tachycardia Paroxysmal SVT: AVNRT, AVRT, Wolf-Parkinson-White syndrome Ventricular tachycardia, torsades de pointes Cardiac arrest rhythms, ACLS algorithm Bradycardia and AV blocks Thoracic aortic aneurysm, abdominal aortic aneurysm Aortic dissection Carotid artery stenosis Intestinal ischemia: acute mesenteric ischemia, chronic mesenteric ischemia, colonic ischemia Renal arteries stenosis, fibromuscular dysplasia Peripheral artery disease Chronic venous insufficiency, varicose veins Vasculitis: giant cell arteritis, Takayasu arteritis, polyarteritis nodosa, Kawasaki disease, GPA, EPA, microscopic polyangitis, mixed cryoglobulinemia Shock: hypovolemic shock, cardiogenic shock, obstructive shock, distributive shock (septic shock, and anaphylactic shock, neurogenic shock) www.lectureboss.com [email protected] David Avarbock, MD, PhD