Paeds Flashcards
Nontender abdominal mass associated with high vanillylmandelic acid (VMA) & homovanillic acid (HVA)
Neuroblastoma
Most common type of trachoesophageal fistula (TEF)
Esophageal atresia with distal TEF (85%)
Unable to pass NG tube
Not contraindication to vaccination
Mild illness and/or low grade fever
Current antibiotic therapy
Prematurity
Tests to rule out abusive head trauma
Opthalmologic exam, CT & MRI
A neonate has meconium ileus
Cystic fibrosis
Hirschprung disease is associated with failure to pass meconium for 48hrs
Bilious emesis within hours after the first breast feeding
Duodenal atresia
A 2 month old baby presents with nonbilious projectile emesis. Diagnosis? Management?
Pyloric stenosis
Hydrate and correct metabolic abnormalities
Pyloromyotomy to correct pyloric stenosis
Most common primary immunodeficiency
Selective IgA deficiency
An infant has high fever and onset of rash as fever breaks. What is he at risk for?
Febrile seizures (due to roseola infantum)
A boy has chronic respiratory infections. Nitroblue tetrazolium test negative
What is the immunodeficiency?
Chronic granulomatous disease
A child has eczema, thrombocytopenia and high levels of IgA. What is the immunodeficiency?
Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome
A 4 month old boy has life-threatening pseudomonas infection. What is the immunodeficiency?
Bruton’s X-linked agammaglobulinaemia
What is the acute phase treatment for Kawasaki disease?
High dose ASA for inflammation and fever
IVIG to prevent coronary aneurysms
What is the treatment for mild and severe unconjugated hyperbilirubinaemia?
Phototherapy (mild) Exchange transfusion (severe)
NB: do NOT use phototherapy for conjugated hyperbilirubinaemia!
Sudden onset mental status changes, emesis &a liver dysfunction after ASA intake
Reye syndrome
A child has loss of red light reflex (white pupil)
What is the diagnosis?
What cancer is he at increased risk of?
Suspect retinoblastoma
Osteosarcoma
6month vaccinations for healthy child
Hep B, DTaP, Hib, IPV, PCV, rotavirus
Tanner stage 3 in a 6 year old girl
Precocious puberty
Infection of small airways with epidemics in winter & spring
RSV bronchiolitis
Cause of neonatal RDS
Surfactant deficiency
Red “currant jelly” stools, colicky abdominal pain, bilious vomiting & sausage shaped mass in RUQ
Intussusception
A congenital heart disease that cause secondary hypertension. What would you find on physical examination?
CoA
Reduced femoral pulses
What is the first line treatment for otitis media?
Amoxicillin
What is the most common pathogen causing croup?
Parainfluenza virus type 1
A homeless child is small for his age and has peeling skin and a swollen belly
Kwashiorkor (protein malnutrition)
Defect in X-linked syndrome with mental retardation, gout, self-mutilation & choreoathetosis
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (purine salvage problem with HGPRTase deficiency)
A newborn girl has a continuous “machinery murmur”. What drug would you give?
Indomethacin - given to close the PDA
A newborn girl with a posterior neck mass and swelling of the hands
Turner syndrome
A young child presents with proximal muscle weakness, waddling gait & pronounced calf muscles
Duchenne muscular dystrophy
A first-born female who was born in breech position is found to have an asymmetric skin folds on newborn exam.
What is the diagnosis?
What is the treatment?
Developmental dysplasia of the hip
If severe, consider a Pavlik harness to maintain abduction
An 11-year old obese African American boy presents with sudden onset of limp
Diagnosis?
Work up?
Slipped capital femoral epiphysis
AP & frog-leg lateral radiographs
An active 13-year old boy has anterior knee pain
Osgood-Schlatter disease
Mimics of bruising
Mongolian spots (non -pathological)
Coining/cupping (alternative treatments in certain cultures)
Pathological bruises on head and torso or patterning
Hit with hand or belt
Types of burns presentations:
Contact burns — cigarette /curling iron
Immersion burns: —hot water, on buttocks or stocking glove distribution
Mimics of burns injury
Scalded skin syndrome OR Severe contact dermatitis
Epiphysis/metaphyseal bucket fractures
Spiral humerus/femur fracture
Posterior rib fracture indicates?
Indicated squeezing
Mimic of fractures
Osteogenesis imperfecta
Lethargy, feeding difficulty, apnoea, seizures, retinal haemorrhage, subdural/epidural haematoma
Abusive head trauma
Mimic for abusive head trauma
Accidental head trauma
Work up for NAI
X-ray skeletal survey and bone scan
If suspect sexual: gonorrhoea, syphilis, chlamydia, HIV sperm testing within 72hrs of assault
Ophthalmology & non contrast CT for head trauma
MRI : white matter changes associated with violent shaking and extent of intra & extracranial bleeds
Management for NAI
Document injuries
Notify Child Protective Services for possible removal of child from home
Hospitalise if necessary to stabilise or protect child
True or false: neisseria gonorrhoea isolated on vaginal culture is definitive evidence of sexual abuse.
True
True or false: chlamydia trachomatis isolated on vaginal culture is definitive evidence of sexual abuse.
False
It can also be acquired from mother during delivery and can persist for up to 3 years
Intrauterine risk factors for congenital heart disease
Maternal drug use (EtOH, lithium, thalidomide, phenytoin)
Maternal infection (rubella)
Maternal illness (DM, PKU)
5 cyanotic heart defects (R—>L shunts)
Truncus arteriosus TGA Tricuspid atresia TOF TAPVM
Only TGA presents with severe cyanosis within the first few hours of life
A mother presents with her previously healthy 3 month old infant boy, stating that he has been Increasingly difficult to rouse for the past four hours and has lost interest in feeding; she left the baby alone with her boyfriend while she left the home to run errands. While en route to the hospital, the baby stop breathing. Physical examination is notable for occipital bruising. What is the most likely cause of this child apnoea?
Abusive head trauma
This is most common in 3 to 4 month old infants and presents early with non-specific symptoms (lethargy, irritability, poor feeding, vomiting) and later with seizures or apnoea.
There is generally no reported history of her trauma. Subdural haematoma and oedema account for most neurological findings. In babies with abusive head trauma, there is a 50 - 70% chance of prior abuse.
3 non cyanotic heart defects
VSD, ASD, PDA
Most common type and subtype of congenital heart disease
VSD; membranous VSD
Most resolve without intervention
Murmur found in ASD
Fixed, widely split S2
True or false: ASD is an VSD is really present at birth with findings other than harsh systolic murmur
True
ASD is VSDs and PDAs are acyanotic conditions and therefore don’t present with cyanosis unless Eisenmenger syndrome has developed
Left to right shunt leads to pulmonary hypertension and shunt reversal
Eisenmenger syndrome
Condition associated with ASD and endocardial cushion defects
Down syndrome
Condition associated with PDA
Congenital rubella
Condition associated with coarctation of the aorta
Turner syndrome (many also have bicuspid aortic valve)
Condition associated with coronary artery aneurysm
Kawasaki disease
Condition associated with congenital heart block
Neonatal lupus
Condition associated with Conotruncal abnormalities
TOF(overriding aorta)
Truncus arteriosus
DiGeorge syndrome (TOF)
Velocardiofacial syndrome
Apical displacement of the tricuspid valve leaving to atrialisation of the right ventricle
Ebstein abnormality
Condition associated with Ebstein abnormality
Maternal lithium use during pregnancy
Condition associated with heart failure
Neonatal thyrotoxicosis
Condition associated with asymmetric septal hypertrophy and TGA
Maternal diabetes
Definition of septal defect
A condition in which an opening in the atrial or ventricular septum and allows blood to flow between the atria and ventricles, leading to left to right shunting.
VSD is the most common type of congenital heart disease
True or false: small septal defect require treatment
False
Most small ASDs/VSDs close spontaneously and do not require treatment
True or false: antibiotic prophylaxis is recommended prior to procedures
False
Indications for surgical repair in septal defect
Symptomatic patients who fail medical management
Children < 1yo With signs of pulmonary hypertension
Older children with large defects that have not reduced in size over time
Complications of septal defect that are prevented by early correction
Arrhythmias, right ventricular dysfunction, Eisenmenger syndrome
Treatment of existing CHF associated with septal defect
Diuretics (initial treatment)
Positive inotropes
ACE inhibitors
Symptoms associated with ASD
Holt- Oram syndrome (absent radii, ASD, first degree heart block)
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Trisomy 21
Syndrome is associated with VSD
Apart syndrome (cranial deformities, fusion of the fingers and toes)
Down syndrome Fetal alcohol syndrome TORCH infections Cri du chat syndrome Trisomies 13 and 18
Presentation of ASD
Small defects: asymptomatic
Large defects: easy fatigability; frequent respiratory infection; FTT
Presentation of VSD
Small defects: asymptomatic
Large defects: recurrent respiratory infection; dyspnoea; FTT; CHF
Auscultation findings in ASD
Wide, Fixed split S2
Systolic injection murmur at the left USB (increased flow across pulmonary valve)
Major diastolic rumble at the left LSB
Auscultation findings in VSD
Harsh holosystolic murmur at LLSB (louder for small defects)
Narrow S2 with loud P2 (large defect)
Mid diastolic apical rumble (due to increased flow across mitral valve)
Chest x-ray findings in septal defect
Cardiomegaly
Increased pulmonary vascular markings
ECG findings in ASD
RVH
Right atrial enlargement
PR prolongation is common
ECG findings in VSD
LVH (RVH may also be found with large defects)
Echo findings in septal defect
Defect and blood flow across the atrial or ventricular septum
Definition of PDA
Failure of the ductus arteriosus to close in the first few days of life, leading to and acyanotic left to right shunt from the aorta to the pulmonary artery.
4 things to look for in infants presenting in a shop like state within the first few weeks of life
- Sepsis
- Inborn errors of metabolism
- Ductal dependent congenital heart disease usually left-sided lesions
- Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
Presentation of PDA
Typically asymptomatic
Large defects: FTT, recurrent LRTI, clubbing and CHF
Examination findings in PDA
Continuous machinery murmur at second left ICS at the sternal border
Loud S2
Wide pulse pressure and bounding peripheral pulses
Diagnostics test of choice for PDA
Colour flow Doppler echocardiogram
Treatment for PDA
Indomethacin (NSAID) for closure unless PDA is needed for survival
Surgical closure is required if indomethacin fails or if the child is >6-8 mo
Conditions where PDA is needed for survival
TGA, TOF, hypoplastic left heart
Contraindication for indomethacin use
Intraventricular haemorrhage
Definition and aetiology of CoA
Construction of a portion of the aorta, Leading to increased flow proximal to and decreased flow distal to the coarctation
Occurs just distal to the left subclavian artery in 90% of patients
Associations: turner syndrome, berry aneurysms, male gender
More than 2/3 of patients have a BAV
Presentation of CoA
Upper extremity hypertension, Weak femoral pulses
Low extremity claudication, syncopes, epistaxis, headache
Radio femoral delay, short to systolic murmur in the left axilla, forceful apical impulse
Infancy: poor feeding, lethargy, tachypnoea, eventual shock like state when the PDA closes
A 2 yo boy is brought to the paediatrician because of shortness of breath and easy fatiguability during play.
O/E tachypnoea and a soft holosystolic murmur of the left lower sternal border.
What is the most likely cause of the boy’s symptoms?
Large untreated VSD leading to Eisenmenger syndrome
There is less turbulence across a large defect compared with a small one leading to a softer murmur
Diagnostic workup for CoA
Colour flow Doppler echocardiography
CXR younger: cardiomegaly and pulmonary congestion
CXR older: 3 sign & rib notching
What is 3 sign on CXR?
In CoA
Pre-and post dilation of the co-optation segment with aortic wall indentation
What is rib notching on CXR?
In CoA
Collateral circulation through the intercostal arteries
Treatment for CoA
PGE1 to keep ductus arteriosus open (Severe infant)
Surgical correction or balloon angioplasty is controversial
Monitor for restenosis, aneurysm development, aortic dissection
DiGeorge syndrome
CATCH 22
Cardiac abnormalities (TGA)
Abnormal facies (retrognathia/micrognathia, long face, short philtrum, low set ears)
Thymic aplasia
Cleft palate
Hypercalcaemia (2/2 parathyroid hypoplasia/a Genesis)
22q11 deletion
Most common cyanotic congenital heart lesion in the newborn
TGA
Definition of transposition of the great arteries
The aorta is connected to the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery to the left ventricle, creating parallel pulmonary and systemic circulations
Without a septal defect and the PDA it is incompatible with life
True or false: both septal defect and PDA are needed to sustain life in TGA
True
PDA alone is usually not sufficient to allow adequate mixing of blood
Risk factors for TGA
Maternal diabetes
DiGeorge syndrome
Presentation and examination of TGA
Cyanosis within first few hours of life
O/E Tachypnoea, progressive hypoxaemia, extreme sinuses
If the VSD is present a systolic murmur may be heard at the left sternal border
Egg shaped silhouette on chest x-ray
TGA
Diagnostic workup of TGA
Echo
CXR: narrow heart base, Absence of main pulmonary artery segment, egg shape silhouette, Increased pulmonary vascular markings
Treatment for TGA
IV PGE to maintain or open the PDA
Arterial or atrial switch is definitive
Indications for balloon atrial septostomy in TGA
Unfeasible surgery in the first few days of life
PDA cannot be maintained with prostaglandin
Purpose of balloon atrial septostomy
To create or enlarge an ASD in TGA
Most common cyanotic congenital heart disease in children
TOF
4 components of TOF
RVOTO, Overriding aorta, RVH, VSD
Tet spells
TOF
Children off and Scott for relief during hypoxaemic episodes which increase systemic vascular resistance, thus increasing bloodflow to the pulmonary vasculature and improved oxygenation