Hillard Cardiac Pathology Part 2 Flashcards
What is the most common structural birth defect?
Congenital heart defect, specifically VSD
What causes congenital heart disease?
- most common due to sporadic genetic mutations
- fetal alcohol syndrome
Describe left to right shunts and the symptoms.
- High pressure left heart or aorta (ox blood) moves to the lower pressure right heart or pulmonary trunk
- Initially asymptomatic, not cyanotic
Describe right to left shunts.
- Blood bypasses pulmonary circulation
- Typically symptomatic and cyanotic
What are the three L to R shunts?
- ASD
- VSD
- PDA
What is the main type of ASD?
- Ostium Secundum (insufficient formation of septum secundum)
- 90% of all ASD’s are this and located in the center of the atrial septum
Clinical features of ASD? Prognosis?
- usually asymptomatic until adulthood
- hear systolic ejection murmur
- Mortality is low and small defects spontaneously close
What are the majority of VSDs? Clinical features? Prognosis?
- 80-90% are membranous VSD
- Asymptomatic until adulthood
- Holosystolic murmur
- ~50-70% small VSDs close spontaneously
- Prognosis depend on presence of other heart defects, those that have symptoms as kids are probably associated with other cardiac anomalies
What is PDA?
- Ductus arteriosus fails to close when infants have increased pulmonary vascualr pressure
- Sx include hypoxia and other heart defects such as VSD
Clinical features of PDA? (what is heard, symptoms, when do you close vs keep open)
- Typically asymptomatic
- Hear harsh machinery like murmmur peaks during systole but throughout diastole as well
- Initally L to R shunt so no cyanosis
- Isolated PDA should be closed with Indomethacin
- Preservation of patency with prostaglandin E1 can be life saving with certain congeintal malformations
What is Eisenmenger syndrome?
- Occurs in long term L to R shunt results in:
- Increased pulmonary blood flow
- Endothelial dysfunction and pulmonary vascular remodeling ( irreversible)
- Increases backflow pressure (so we have increase in Pulmonary vascular resistance, blood doesn’t like to go in anymore)
- Results in inverted shunt, now it is right to left
What are the threee R to L shunts? Cyanotic or not?
- Tetralogy of fallot
- Transposition of great arteries
- Tricuspid atresia
- Cyanosis at birth
What are the symptoms in general of R to L shunts?
- “blue baby” cyanosis
- Clubbing of fingers (long term)
What are the 4 features of tetralogy of fallot?
- VSD
- R. vent hypertrophy
- Subpulmonic stenosis (severity of this abnormality contributes to severity of overall disease)
- Overriding aorta (aorta is located in center of heart over the VSD)
What is the most common Cyanotic congenital heart defect?
Tetralogy of fallot
Clinical characteristics of tetralogy of fallot?
- Infants are cyanotic from birth in most cases
- VSD causes holosystolic murmur
- Squatting to increase systemic pressure
- Tet spell=cyanosis syncope during emotional distress, exercise
What is a case of preserving a PDA?
Transposition of great arteries to allow mixing of blood
Describe transposition of great arteries
- Aorta and pulmonary artery are switched
- Incompatible with life unless shunt is present allowing for mixing of blood
Describe tricuspid atresia.
- Complete absence of triscupid valve
- Oxygenation maintained by ASD/PFFO and VSD
- Severe immediate cyanosis after birth
- High mortality- need surgery
Congenital obstructive cardiac conditions?
- Coarctation of aorta
- Congenital aortic and pulmonary stenosis/atresia
Coarctation of aorta?
- Focal narrowing of aorta
- Infantile form: coarctation with PDA
- Adult form coarctation without PDA
Epidemiology of Coarctation of aorta?
- More common in males 2x
- Females assoc with turner syndrome
- Bicuspid aortic valve
Describe the adult form of coarctation of aorta?
- upper body htn
- Lower body hypotension, weak pulses, arteiral insufficiency
- Long standing rib notching
- due to collateral intercostal vessels oxygenating causing a pressure erosion
Infantile form of coarctation of aorta?
- Presents with cyanosis at birth on lower half of body only
- Severity depends on narrowing
What is congenital aortic stenosis/atresia?
- mild stenosis or sub aortic stenosis causing left ventricular hypertrophy
- hypertrophy of ventricle causes larger muscle amount but no increase in vasculature
What is a paradoxical emobolism? Where would an embolism normally go?
- Emboli arising in the venous system passes through a PFO and travels into arterial system causing a stroke
- Normally go to lungs only
What is a PFO?
- 80% close permanently by 2 years
- 20% can remain open if the right side pressure is increased
- Temporary increase in pressure can produce brief periods of R to L shunting
- valsalva
- Bowel movement
- Cough/sneeze
- Resulting in possible paradoxical emboli
- Temporary increase in pressure can produce brief periods of R to L shunting
3 Most common congenital heart defects with down syndrome?
- Atrioventricular> Ventricular> atrial
What is marfan syndrome? What cardiac risks do they have?
- Fibrillin 1 mutation, excessive TFG-B causing increase in MMP’s which degrade elastin
- talll thin build, flexible joints, pectus excavatum, long arms/legs/fingeers
- Increase risk of aortic aneurysm and aortic dissection
- mitral or aortic valve prolapse
What is DiGeorge? What are the associated cardiac anomalies?
- CATCH-22
- cardiac anomalies, abnormal facies, thymic aplasia, cleft palate, hypocalcemia, deletion 22q11
- Conotruncal heart abnormalities tetralogy of fallot, transposition arteries, ASD VSD
What cardiac anomaly is turner syndrome associated with?
- Coarctation of aorta
What is the hypertensive heart disease criteria?
- Concentric left ventricular hypertrophy
- Other evidence of htn
How does hypertensive heart disease impact diastolic function and what can that lead to?
- Dysfunction of diastole (cant relax), left atrial enlargement, atrial fibriliation
- can lead to CHF and atrial fib can lead to thrombus
How does hypertensive heart disease impact systole?
- Systolic dysfunction, due to increase oxygen demand without vasculature to handle it leads to congestive heat failure
Describe the mechanism of right sided hypertensive disease? (Cor pulmonale)
- isolated right sided pulmonary hypertensive disease
- diseases of pulmonary parenchyma, vessels, or chest movement can increase the pulmonary pressure by constricting pulmonary small vessels
- this leads to increased resistance so high pressure in the pulmonary artery and therefore right side of heart
- eventually induces right side heart failure
What is the most common valve abnormality? Prevelance, risk factors?
- Calcific aortic stenosis
- increase with age around 60-80 yo
- “wear and tear” assoc. with chronic htn hyperlipidemia