Congenital Heart Defects - Bell Flashcards
Changes at birth:
- First breath
- Clamped placental vessel
- Others
- Decrease in pulmonary resistance
- Sys. vascular resistance increases
- FO closes
- PG dehydrogenase destoys PGE2 from placenta
- Decreased m coat of pulmonary vascular resistance over the next 6 weeks
Cyanosis can be ___ or ____
acrocyanosis, central cyanosis
_____ is a sign of serious abnormality
Central cyanosis
Difference in limbs that is cause for evaluation
3%
Central cyanosis ______ Hb
3-5g/dL desaturated
Abnormality cardiac physiology that causes hypoxia without hypercarbia
5 terrible T’s with PS
(TAVPR, Pulm atresia, Single ventricle)
Cardiac defects show this level even on 100% oxygen
Usually less than 50
PCO2 doest change (still low, normal level)
CHF sx in infants
- tachypnea
- poor feeding
- tachycardia, diaphoresis
- Hyperdynamic precordium, tachy/tachy
- Hepatomegaly
- Edema
Younger children with CHF may appear to have _______
gastroenteritis, with N/V/D
Older children with CHF may present with
exercise intolerance, cough, anorexia, fatigue
Pathophys. causes of chf
- decreased C.O.
- Increased SY tone and increased mineralocorticoids due to high RAAS
- Also Increased ANP, BNP, IGF1 ,GH
- Both lead to cardiac remodeling
4 physiologic mechanisms that reult in HF
- Increased fluid load to heart (Increased preload)
- Obstructed ventricular emptying (increased afterload)
- Decreased contractility
- Abnormal rhythms
Cyanotic lesions that lead to increased volume load
Decreased pulmonary blood flow
obstruction to pulm blood flow and R>L shunt
Tricuspid atresia, Single ventrical with pulmonary stenosis, tetrology
Cyanotic lesions with increased pressure load
Increased pulmonary blood flow
intracardiac mixing or abnormal ventricular-arterial connection
Transposition, TAPVR, TA, Common atria or ventricle
Top 3 Congenital HDs’
VSD (25-30)
ASD (Secundum) (6-8)
PDA (6-8)
___________ associated with VSD
NKx2.5, GATA4, TBX5
Two others assoc’d with VSD
22q11 deletion, Holt-Oram syndrome
Gender ratio of VSD
equal
4 types of VSD
Supracristal
Peri-membranous
Posterior
Muscular
Large VSD can progress to…(6)
- CHF
- Holosystolic murmur (2 weeks) with diastolic rumble at apex
- Prominent L precurdium
- Palpable Sternal lift
- Systolic thrill
- Apical Thrust
Small VSD’s…
close spontaneouslyl
Complications of large VSD
Growth fail, pulm infctns (untreated CHF)
Eisenmonger’s physiology
Long-term VSD risk
bacterial endocarditis
Eisenmonger’s physiology
Dilated pulmonary artery secondary to pulmonary HTN
VSD Treatment
Diuretics, ACEi, ARB, nitrate, milrinone (or CCB)
If refractory, pulmHTN, or A regurg = close surgically
Complications of Percutaneous VSD closure
late (1 week) AV block
hemolysis
sepsis
device embolization
arrhythmia
thrombosis
Atrial septal defect gender ratio
Female to male 3:1
___ is one third of the CHD detected in adults
ASD
____is most common defect in Holt Oram syndrome
ASD
TF’s involved in ASD
NKx,
TBX5, GATA4 (activate MYH6)
ASD associated with
PAPVR, MVP
Ausculation of ASD
First heart sound is loud (possible pulmonic ej. click)
Soft systolic ejection murumur at the 2nd interspace
fixed widely split second heart sound
ASD on ECG
RVH, R axis deviation
Echo in ASD
septal motion with increased RV will move anterior in systole rather than posterior in systole/anterior in diastole
____ may trigger ASD complications
pregnancy
___ rare with ASD
bact. endocarditis
Can delineate lesion and shunt in ASD
Cardiac cath