Acyanotic Heart Defects

Question 1

Results in the mixing of oxygenated blood from the right atrium with deoxy blood returning from the SVC resulting in higher O2 concentration in the R atrium and ventricle than normal. Its associated with a split fixed second heart sound on cardiac auscultation

Answer 1

ASD

Question 2

Presents with htn in the upper extremities and a systolic murmur.

Answer 2

Coarctation of the aorta

Question 3

Holosystolic murmur best heard in the left lower sternal border

Answer 3

VSD