Abnormal Cardiovascular Development Flashcards

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What is ectopia cordis and what is believed to cause this condition?

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It’s when the heart forms outside the thoracic wall due to failure in folding of the lateral body wall

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Describe the development of dextrocardia.

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This happens if the developing heart tube turns to the left instead of the to the right

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What developmental structures and events are responsible for the four clinically significant type of atrial septal defects?

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It’s an abnormal opening between the right and left atria - we usually get a flap over the foramen ovale to close it

Four possibilities

  1. excessive resorption of primary septum leading to patent foramen ovale
  2. Incomeptent foramen ovale due to hypoplastic growth of the secondary septum (foramen too large)
  3. inadequate development of primary septum - doesn’t reach the cushion - forming a basal opening
  4. the sinus venosus develops abnormally and doesn’t join the primitive atrium appropriately, causing a high atrial septal defect
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How do the atrial septal defects manifest clinically after birth?

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Large shunts lead to pulmonary hypertension as blood from the left atrium over to the right to enter the pulmonary system.

you get cyanosis several months or years after birth

if it’s not dealt with, you get pulmonary fibrosis, right ventricular failure and paradoxical embolism

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Describe the developmental abnormalities occurring in ventricular septal defects.

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You have abnormal formation of the endocardial cushions and aorticopulmonary septum, so you don’t have the membranous portion of the interventricular septum (the upper part)

Sometimes you have muscular septum involvment as well - usually at multiple sites (swiss cheese septum)

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How are ventricular septal defects clinically manifested?

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cyanosis tardive in long-standing cases

murmurs

Note - 50% close spontaneously!
Often associated with other abnormalities

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Describe the types of coarctation of the aorta that may occur.

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Coarctation is a narrowing of the aorta, typically immediately at the area where the ductus arteriosus comes off

types depend on whether the narrowing occurs distal or proximal to the ductus arteriosus: postductal (adult form and most common) and preductal (infant form)

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What are the clinical manifestations of coarctation of the aorta?

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For the postductal in adults:

  1. BP increased in arms, but decreased in legs
  2. intercostal artery blood flow is increased, leading to notched ribs as the large vessels cause resorption of the bone
  3. weak pulses in lower extremities
  4. complications of CHF, CVA, AOrtic rupture and infection
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What happens in patent ductus arteriosus? Describe the clinical situations can cause this.

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The ductus arteriosus fails to close. because pressure in the aortic system is higher than in the pulmonary, blood is moved form the aorta into the pulmonary trunk

Living at high altitudes, maternal rubella infection

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How can patent ductus arteriosus be treated?

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in preemies, give ibuprofen to inhibit prostaglandin formation and promote closure

in others - catheter-placed occluder

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Describe the clinical features of patent ductus arteriosus

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a continuous machine-like murmur or thrill

reversed blood flow causes cardiomegaly, increased pulmonary vascularity, heart failure, pulmonary hypertension and endocarditis is common

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Describe the cardiac abnormalities associated with a right-to-left shunt.

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The three Ts!

Tetralogy of Fallot
Transposition of the great arteries
Truncus arteriosus (persistent)

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What are the clinical signs related to right to left shunts.

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cyanosis at birth

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Describe the cardiac abnormalities that cause left to right shunts.

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atrial septal defects
ventricular septal defects
patent ductus arteriosus

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What are the clinical signs of a left to right shunt?

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no cyanosis or cyanosis tardive

exercise intolerance

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Describe the development of late cyanotic congenital heart disease or Eisenmenger syndrome.

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With left to right shunts, the blood builds up on the right side, increasing the work necessary for the right ventricle and pulmonary system.

over time, this leads to right sided ventricular failure and pulmonary hypertension leads to pulmonary fibrosis

the ventricular failure and fibrosis means the blood doesn’t get reoxygenated appropriately, leading to a delayed cyanosis later in life

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How is coarctation of the aorta an obstructive congenital heart defect?

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because you get such severe narrowing of the aorta that the patient can’t get enough blood flowing thorugh and must develop collateral circulation

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Describe the developmental defects related to the tetralogy of Fallot - the sequence of development.

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  1. ventricular septal defect
  2. pulmonary stenosis
  3. overriding (large) aorta which gains access to the right ventricle)
  4. right ventricular hypertrophy
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What are the clinical signs associated with tetralogy of fallot?

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cyanosis within the first weeks of life

over time you get the ventricular hypertrophy

paradoxical embolism

infective endocarditis

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Describe the developmental defect related to transposition of the great arteries.

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the bulbotruncal ridges don’t form appropriately so you don’t get the right spiraling of the aorticopulmonary septum. This means the aorta originates from the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery from the left ventricle

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What are the clinical symptoms of transposition of the great arteries.

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It’s incompatible with life!!!! Unless you also have atrial and ventricular septal defects and a PDA to allow mixing of the oxygenated and deoxygenated blood so at least the blood going to the tissues will have SOME oxygen in it

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What shunts may be involved in transposition of the great arteries

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atrial septal defect
ventricular septal defect
patent ductus arteriosus

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Describe the developmental defect related to a patent truncus arteriosus.

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The bulbar and truncal ridges fail to develop so you don’t get the aorticopulmonary septum and you don’t have a separate atrium and pulmonary trunk - just a common aorticopulmonary outlet receiving blood from both ventricles

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What are the clinical signs of patient truncus arteriosus?

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there is mixing of oxygenated and deoxygenated blood, so you get a cyanosis tardive and increased pulmonary blood flow leading to irreversible pulmonary hypertension and fibrosis

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Describe the clinical differences between a preductal and postductal coarctation.

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For the postductal in adults:

  1. BP increased in arms, but decreased in legs
  2. intercostal artery blood flow is increased, leading to notched ribs as the large vessels cause resorption of the bone
  3. weak pulses in lower extremities
  4. complications of CHF, CVA, AOrtic rupture and infection

For preductal in infants:

  1. early CHF
  2. patent ductus arteriosus
  3. cyanosis of lower body!!!!
    - increased mortality
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What is the difference with clinical signs of a patent ductus arteriosus versus coarctation of the aorta without PDA?

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In PDA you have late cyanosis in the entire body. in PDA you get pulmonary hypertension.

in coarctation you can either have no cyanosis or cyanosis of the lower body only. here you have hypertension in upper extremities, but not in lower extremities.

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What developmental structure is repsonsible for the occurrence of either pulmonary or aortic stenosis?

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Asymmetrical division or spiralling of the aorticopulmonary septum (bulbar and truncal ridges)

28
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What heart defects are associated with maternal rubella infection?

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patent ductus arteriosus, but also pulmonary stenosis and ventricular septal defects

(along with cataracts and deafness)

29
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What heart defect is associated with diabetes in the mother?

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transposition of the great arteries (more common in male babies)

30
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In summary

what shunts are involved with blue babies and which are involved with blue kids?

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Right to left = blue babies
tetrology of fallot
transposition of great vessels
truncus arteriosus persistent

Left to right = blue kids
artial or ventricular septal defects
patent ductus arteriosus

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What heart defects are associated with DiGeorge Syndrome (deletion of chromosomes 22q11)

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tetralogy of fallot
truncus arteriosus (persistent)
32
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What heart defects are associated with down syndrome?

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atrial septal defect

ventricular septal defect

33
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What heart defect is associated with turner syndrome?

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coarctation of the aorta

34
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What congenital heart defect is associated with marfan syndrome

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aortic stenosis