Chapter 23 Flashcards
What condition causes both great arteries to arise from the right ventricle with a VSD and pulmonary stenosis?
Double outlet right ventricle (DORV)
What is the most common benign tumor found in the ventricle?
Rhabdomyoma
What is akinetic?
without motion
What is it called when the apex of the heart points to the right?
Dextrocardia
What is right ventricular hypoplasia?
Underdevelopment of right ventricle and hypoplasia of the tricuspid valve
What defect allows oxygenated blood from the left ventricle to pass into the right ventricle?
Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD)
What is the ductus venosus?
Connection between the umbilical vein and the inferior vena cava
What are premature atrial contractions (PACs)
An irregular extra contraction of the atria out of sync with the ventricles
What is another name for abnormal heart rate?
arrhythmia
What is truncus arteriosus?
Defect leaving single artery spanning the ventricles
What is dyskinetic?
impaired movement
What defect leaves an abnormal opening between the right and left atria?
Atrial septal defect (ASD)
What is tricuspid atresia?
Congenital absence of the tricuspid valve
What is the first section of the interatrial septum to form in the embryo?
Septum primum
What anomaly causes displacement of the tricuspid valve toward the apex of the heart?
Ebstein’s anomaly
What are papillary muscles?
Muscular projections into the ventricles that anchor the chordae tendinae of the AV valves