Module 4 : Cyanotic CHD's Flashcards
what is cyanosis
- blue, gray, dark purple discolouration of the mucous membranes caused by low blood oxygen
what causes cyanosis
- oxygenated blood mixing with unoxygenated blood
- either from blood not getting to the lungs or blood not getting to the body
what are the signs and symptoms of a cyanotic CHD
- cyanosis of lips, toes, fingers, tip of nose
- blueish skin
- hyperventilation
- rounded clubbed fingers
- delayed growth
- tachycardia
- sweating
- SOB
- chronic respiratory infections
how many CHDs are considered cyanotic
- 8
what are the 5 T’s + These (three)
- complete TRANSPOSITION of great arteries
- TETROLOGY of fallot
- TRUNCUS arteriosus
- TOTAL anomalous pulmonary venous return
- TRICUSPID atresia
- pulmonary atresia
- hypoeplastic left heart syndrome
- double outlet right ventricle
what is CTGA (D transposition)
- aorta arises from the morphologic RV
- pulmonary artery arises from the morphologic LV
what is the incidence in male to female in CTGA
- 3:1 male to female
what are the 3 anomalies with CTGA and is it considered fatal
- PFO
- transposed PA and AO
- PDA
- fatal if not corrected
why is the otters name for complete TGA D-TGA and why is it dangerous
- DEXTRO TGA
- atrioventricular concordance with ventriculoarterial discordance
- left and right heart are parallel
- blood unable to travel from right to left heart
what is the embryology with D-TGA
- instead of truncus arteriosus spiralling during development they run parallel inside truncus arteriosus
what vessels are connected to what ventricles and
- anterior aortic valve connects to the right ventricle
- posterior pulmonic valve connects to the left ventricle
what is the blood flow direction in DTGA
- shunt dependant lesion
- lesion pumps deoxygenated blood to he aorta and the body and oxygenated blood to the lungs
why is DTGA considered a shunt dependant lesion
- without a shunt of any kind there is no mixing of blood as the blood goes around and in series
what is hypoplastic right ventricle
- secondary to pulmonary atresia with no VSD
- small RV and small or absent pulmonary artery
why’s is hypoplastic right ventricle a shunt dependant lesion
- with small or absent PV/PA and very small RV flow to the lungs is greatly affected
what are the common sonographic features of HLHS
- small LV
- aortic stenosis or atresia
- mitral valve atresia
- associated with hypoplstic aortic arch
- associated with coarctation of the aorta
- ASD