Congenital Heart Disease-Levitas Flashcards
What percentage of births have Congenital Heart disease?
1%
Types of Left-Right shunt: pink babies?
ASD, VSD, AVSD, DORV (double outlet RV-can become blue if not early enough), PDA,
What are the causes of cyanotic heart disease/Blue baby?
TOF, D-TGA, TAPR (total anomalous pulmonary return), TA (tricuspid atresia)
Types of obstructive heart disease with no shunts
HRHS (hypoplastic), Ebstein’s (can also be pink baby), PS, CoA
Oxyhemoglobin Dissociation Curve
SaO2=%ge of hemoglobin molecules oxygenated in arterial blood
PaO2=mmHg of O2 PP in arterial blood
Why is the blue baby blue?
Discoloratino of skin and mucus membranes due to reduced hemoglobin by at least 5g/dL.
What is the O2 saturation of a blue baby?
What is the PaO2 of a blue baby?
What 4 physiological reasons would a blue baby be blue?
Disordered breathing, lungs, hemoglobin or heart
What is the appearance of a baby with disordered breathing
Seizures, apathy, hypotonia, abnormal breathing like Kussmaul (labored) breathing.
What is the appearance of a baby with disordered lungs?
Distressed and anxious. Health brain but working hard.
What is the appearance of a baby with disordered hemoglobin?
Normal disposition, normal breathing rate but purple or bluish. Could also have polycythemia.
What is the appearance of a patient with a disordered heart
Happy tachypneic, maybe in CHF or cardiac shock. Lungs delivering but heart not delivering to body. Pt may go into shock.
How to treat a patient with a disordered heart
Physical exam, 4 limb blood pressure (to check for coarctation), pre and post ductal saturations (for PDA), EKG, PaO2/hyperoxic test.
What is a hyperoxic test
Give 100% O2 for 5 minutes, check PaO2. If above 250mmHg: exclude CHD. 150-250mmHg: unlikely CHD but possible, below 150mmHg: likely CHD. Double check with an echo.
What to look for in a CXR for CHD
ABCDE: Airways and Air Filled Lungs – Bronchi (normal-asymmetrical) focal opacifications, or extra fluids?; Bones – rib number/abnormalities; Cardiac side (situs), size, siluhete, and Apex; Diaphragm and below, flattened (asthma) or not and where is the liver and the stomach.; Extra equipment
What could black lungs mean?
Not enough blood flow to lungs (undercirculation) from obstruction, small right heart, obstructed pulmonary outflow or pulmonic stenosis.
What does big heart/black lungs mean?
Obstruction problem (PS or Epsteins)
What does big heart/white lungs mean?
CHF (from large AVSD or VSD), HLHS, etc.
What does a boot shaped heart indicate?
Tetrology of Fallot, RV hypertrophy
What does “Eggs on a String” represent?
Aorta on RS and pulm on LS/D-TGA
What is the most common cause of cyanotic heart disease?
Tetrology of Fallot
What percentage of CHD patients have tetrology of Fallot?
8%
What are the 4 defects in Tetrology of Fallot?
- Pulmonary Stenosis, 2. Overriding aorta, 3. VSD, 4. Right ventricular hypertrophy
What is the responsibility of the neural crest cells?
Migrate and invade truncal ridges and bulbar ridges. Common truncus makes vessels, signals truncus to rotate and create septum. Signals creation of AV valves.
Embryologically: what creates the ventricular septum?
Ventricular ridges to truncoconal septum