34 Flashcards
Heart on right side of chest
Apex points medially or to the left
Dextroposition
Causes heart to dilate secondary to regurgitation and also affects cardiac functions
Cardiomyopathy
Necrosis and destruction of myocardial cells and inflammatory infiltrate
Myocarditis
Abnormal collection of fluid surrounding the epicardial layer of heart
Pericardial effusion
Provides communication between atriums
Atrial septum
Most common
Occurs in area of foramen ovalis
Secundum ASD
How is ostium primum septal defect best seen?
4 chamber view
Most common congenital lesion of heart
Makes up 30% of structural heart defects
VSD
Heart in right chest
Apex pointed to right of thorax
Dextrocardia
Endocardial cushion fails to fuse in center of heart
ASD
Single undivided free floating leaflet stretching across both ventricles
Complete ASD
The inflow portion of the right ventricle has failed to form
Tricuspid atresia stenosis
Malformation of tricuspid valve
Sono findings – inf displacement of tricuspid valve and enlarged right atrium
Ebstein’s Anomaly of the tricuspid valve
Sono findings of a hypoplastic right heart
Small right ventricle
Most common form of cyanotic heart disease in infants and children
Tetralogy of Fallot