Congenital Heart Disease Flashcards
_______ bypasses hepatic circulation in utero
Ductus venosus
_______ typically closes 10-15 hours after birth.
Ductus arteriosus
_______, especially _____, are produced in the ______ and maintain the patency of the ductus arteriosus
Prostaglandins; PGE2; placenta and ductal wall
ASD management children and older
Percutaneous closure
ASD management infants
Medical management of symptoms
ASD Natural History (4)
Undetected in children; Pulmonary Vascular Disease, Atrial arrhythmias, heart failure
ASD Presentation
Rare in infancy
Causes of secundum ASD
too large of an osteum secundum in the septum primum or an inadequate development of the septum secundum
Coarctation management adult
Stent or surgery
Coarctation management child
Balloon angioplasty or surgery
Coarctation management infant
Prostaglandins then end-to-end anastomosis surgical repair
Coarctation Natural History (5)
Development of collateral circulation; death from HF, aortic rupture/dissection, infective endocarditis, cerebral hemorrhage
Coarctation Presentation (1-2 weeks) (3)
Tachypnea, poor feeding, cardiogenic shock
Coarctation Presentation (Adult) (1)
Hypertension
Coarctation Presentation (Childhood) (4)
Asymptomatic, hypertension, claudication symptoms, headache
Coarctation Presentation (Infancy) (2)
Cardiogenic shock, absent femoral pulses
Complication of cyanotic CHD with persistent fevers and behavioral changes
Cerebral abscess
Components of Tetrology of Fallot
RV hypertrophy, RV outflow tract obstruction, Overriding aorta, VSD
Consequences of aortic coarctation (3)
Leg pain with exercise, elevated RAA release, necrotizing enterocolitis
CXR findigns of coarctation (4)
Rib notching, dilated aortic nob, coarctation, post-stenotic dilation
EKG for adult coarctation
ST depression, T wave flattening or inversion
EKG for child coarctation
modest LV hypertrophy
EKG for infant coarctation
RV hypertrophy with R axis deviation
EKG for VSD
hypertrophy and right axis deviation
Genetic Syndrome associated with Aortic Coarctation
Turner Syndrome
Masses appear in the truncus: ________ and _______ truncal swellings
dextrosuperior, sinistroinferior
Masses appear on the inside wall of the conus: _______ and _______ conal crests
dextrodorsal, sinistroventral
PDA (large or symptomatic) in older child
Percutaneous occlusion