Paediatrics: Cardiology Flashcards
Fetal Circulation: Where does gas exchange occur?
placenta
Fetal circulation: what gets exchanged at the placenta?
- Collect oxygen + nutrients
- Dispose of waste products (CO2 + lactate)
How many shunts are there in the Fetal circulation ? name them?
3
- Ductus venosus
- Foramen ovale
- Ductus arteriosus
Why does blood not go to fetal lungs?
Fetal lungs not developed or functional so shunts allow blood to bypass lungs
From where to where does ductus venous shunt? what does it bypass?
Umbilical vein => Ductus venosus => Inferior vena cava
- Bypass the liver
If there was no ductus venosus, then where would blood flow?
Umbilical vein => portal vein => liver => hepatic vein => inferior vena cava
From where to where does foramen ovale shunt? what does it bypass?
Right atrium => foramen ovale => left atrium
- Bypass RV + pulmonary circulation
From where to where does ductus arteriosus shunt? what does it bypass?
Pulmonary artery => ductus arteriosus => aorta
- Bypass pulmonary circulation
Fetal circulation: what different ways can blood get from RA to aorta?
- RA => foramen ovale => LA => LV => aorta
- RA => RV => pulmonary artery => ductus arteriosus => aorta
At birth describe what happens to foramen ovale? explain
what does it become?
fist breath expands alveoli in lungs => decrease vascular resistance => decrease pressure in RA => LA pressure > RA pressure => closure of foramen ovale (eventually => fossa ovalis)
What is required to keep ductus arteriosus open? be specific
prostaglandins (E1)
At birth describe what happens to ductus arteriosus? explain
What does it become?
At birth: increased blood oxygenation => decreased prostaglandin conc => closure of ductus arteriosus (=> ligament arteriosum)
What are congenital heart defects?
Group of structural abnormalities of the heart the are present at birth
What physiology would cause a cyanotic CHD? briefly
L => R shunt
Give examples of Cyanotic CHD (3)
- Tetralogy of fallot
- Transposition of the great arteries
- Tricuspid atresia
give the 2 categories of cyanotic CHD?
- Shunt lesions
- obstructive lesion
Give examples of shunt lesions? are these cyanotic or not? (3)
VSD, ASD, Patent ductus arteriosus
asyanotc but can beomce cyanotic (Eisenmenger syndrome)
how to obstructive CHD affect the heart?
narrowing/blockage in heart => increase pressure load => hypertrophy
what are innocent murmurs also known as, are they common?
innocent/flow murmurs are common in children
what physiology causes an innocent murmur
caused by fast blood flow through hear in systole
What are the typical features of an innocent murmur?
SSSSSSSSS
- Soft
- Short
- Systolic
- Symptomless
- Situation dependant
When would you want to investigate a murmur in a child? what signs?
- Loud murmur
- diastolic
- louder on standing
- Other symptoms (failure to thrive, feeding difficulty, cyanosis, sob)
Describe a pan systolic murmur?
continue throughout the whole systolic contraction of the heart
What can cause a pnasystolic murmur? (3)
- Mitral regurgitation
- Tricuspid regurgitation
- VSD
What can cause an ejection systolic murmur? (4)
- Aortic stenosis
- Pulmonary stenosis
- ASD
(- tetralogy of Fallot (due to pulmonary stenosis))
What causes splitting of the second heart sound? During which bit of respiration is it normally heard?
Splitting of the second heart sound: normal sound heard on inspiration caused by the negative intrathoracic pressure (generated when chest wall + diaphragm pull lungs open)
- normal on inspiration
What pathology could cause a fixed split second heart sound? describe the murmur associated with this
ASD: ejection systolic, crescendo-descrendo murmur, loudest at the upper left sternal border, with fixed split second heart sound (on inspiration + expiration)
what heart murmur would teroatlofy of fallot present with? what is this due to?
murmur due to pulmonary stenosis => ejection systolic murmur
What is tetralogy of Fallot?
Congenital cardiac condition with 4 co-existing pathologies
what are the 4 pathologies in ToF?
- VSD
- overriding aorta
- Pulmonary stenosis
- Right ventricular hypertrophy
Think of the cowboy riding the aorta, squeezing the pulmonary artery in the boot shaped heart.
Describe the pathophysiology of ToF? of each pathology
VSD allos blod to flow through ventricles
- Overriding aorta means ta entrance to aorta (aortic valve) is placed further ro the right than normal => when RV contracts => more (more deoxy blood sent through aorta)
- Stenosis of pulmonary valve => greater resistance against flow of blood form RV => more blood through VSD into aorta => R to L shunt => cyanosis
- Increased strain on RV + pulmonary stenosis => RV hypertrophy
ToF RF? (4)
- Rubella infection
- Increased maternal age
- Maternal alcohol use
- trisomy 21
ToF presentation?
- Mostly picked up antenately, or ejection systolic murmur at NIPE
- cyanosis, clubbing, poor feeding, poor weight gain
- tet spells
What are Tet spells?
intermittent spells wehre R => L shunt temporarily worsens => cyanotic episode
What causes tet spells ? (physiology)
Due to increase in pulmonary vas resistance or decrease in systemic resistance
Features of tet spells? (3)
- Rapid, deep respiration
- Irritability
- Increasing cyanosis
Management of ToF? medical and surgical?
medical: squatting, prostaglandin infusion, BB, morphine
- Surgical (definitive): total surgical repair by open heart surgery
what is the common CXR finding of ToF
boot shaped heart
What is PDA?
Patent Ductus Arteriosus
- Failure of closure of the ductus arteriosus
when does normal functional and structural closure of ductus arteriosus occur?
Functional: 1-3 days
Structural: 2-3 weeks
PDA RF? (2)
- Prematurity
- Maternal rubella
what kind of shunt in PDA? describe the pressures briefly ?
L => R shunt
- Pressure in aorta > pressure in pulmonary vessels
what does the shunt in PDA cause? describe the steps
L to R shunt => increased blood flow through pulmonary circulation => pulmonary hypertension + R sided heart strain => R sided hypertrophy => pulmonary pressure greater than systemic => eisenmengers syndrome => cyanosis
PDA presentation in infants?
- SOB
- difficulty feeding
- Poor weight gain
- Recurrent LRTI
- murmur
What heard on auscultation of patient with PDA?
continuous crevscendo-descrencend machinery murmur during 2nd heart sound
when might PDA first be picked up?
murmur on newborn exam
what is the gold standard investigation of PDA?
transthoracic echo + doppler (to assess size and character of L=>R shunt)
describe the management of PDA?
- monitor up until 1 yr (unless severe)
- After 1 yr it is unlikely to close spontaneously so surgery: transcatheter, open heart surgery
What is an atrial septal defect?
When the septum between the R + L atria is not formed properly?
what is the most common CHD?
VSD
(ASD is second)
describe what forms and makes up the atrial septum? ahem the layers?
2 walls grow downward to fuse with endocardial tissue to separate atria
- septum primum + septum secondum
what makes up the foramen ovale?
small space formed between septum primum + secondum
what kind of shunt does ASD cause ? cyanotic ?
LA => RA shunt (a-cyanotic)
describe what the shunt in ASD can cause?
shunt LA to RA => R sided overload + R heart strain => pulmonary hypertension + RHF => Eisenmenger Syndrome (where pulmonary pressure is greater than systemic pressure) => shunt reverse (R=>L) => cyanosis
what are the 3 types of ASD?
- Ostium primum
- Ostium Secondum
- PFO (technically not ASD)
what is the most common type of ASD?
Ostium Secundum (I think)
Patient presents with DVT that develops a large stroke. What condition should be on your mind? why?
ASD
- DVT enters systemic circulation through shunt and goes to brain
What are some complications of ASD?
- Stroke
- AF
- Atrial flutter
- Pulmonary hypertension
- R sided HF
- Eisenmenger Syndrome
ASD RF?
- Maternal smoking (1st trimester)
- Maternal diabetes
- Maternal rubella
ASD presentation? childhood?
vast majority of ASD are asymptomatic
- SOB
- Difficulty feeding
- Poor weight gain
- Recurrent LRTI