Specialty Disciplines -- Handler, Hoffman, Bordeau, Wiese, and Sears Flashcards
What is the most common congenital heart defect?
Ventricular Septal Defect
Hypoxemia confirms suspected ________ heart disease
Cyanotic
What is the mainstay of imaging for anatomy and hemodynamics of the heart?
Echocardiography
Cyanosis is more common with L to R shunt or R to L shunt?
R to L
What may find you find on physical exam when cyanosis is long standing?
Clubbing of fingers
If you give someone oxygen with a R to L shunt, will it help?
Nope
What do we call destruction of pulmonary vasculature (arteriolar) bed in presence of continuous pressure overload?
Pulmonary Vascular Obstructive Disease (PVOD)
Are small “restrictive” VSD’s well tolerated?
Yes!
Large resistance to flow through small hole; normal RVP and PAP; small L to R shunt
Most of these will close on their own
Harsh, holosystolic murmur along LSB should make you think of?
Ventricular septal defect
If someone has a large VSD, how will they present?
With symptoms of heart failure
What test identifies the size and location of the defect and the presence of shunting? This test is also diagnostic of VSD.
Echo-doppler
Having a large VSD also puts people at risk for developing?
Pulmonary Vascular Obstructive Disease (PVOD)
How do we properly manage someone with a small VSD compared to a large VSD?
Small – regular check ups. Periodic echo-doppler studies to confirm eventual closure.
Large – treat as if HF. Surgical repair once HF symptoms improve.
What is Eisenmerger’s physiology?
When a L to R shunt becomes a R to L. Shunt reversal!
In reference to the atrial septum, where do most Atrial septal defects occur?
Mid septum – due to lack of tissue for overlap.
80% of the time, atrial septal defects are due to this not completely developing
Ostium secundum
I don’t know how to make this a question but…
volume overload is a major issue with ASD
What type of symptoms does an ASD patient present with and at what age do they typically begin to show symptoms?
Start in early 20s with very vague symptoms – fatigue, dyspnea, decreased stamina
A fixed, widely split S2 through inspiration and expiration should make you think of?
ASD
As an ASD progresses, the murmur will change from a widely split S2 to??
Mid-systolic crescendo-decrescendo murmur at LSB
Incidence of this arrhythmia increases with each decade for someone with an ASD
A fib (and a flutter)
When this occurs, the RV develops concentric hypertrophy and reflects degree of obstruction at the valvular level.
Pulmonic stenosis
PV area must be reduced by how much (or more) to be hemodynamically significant?
60 percent
What is the major hemodynamic burden with pulmonic stenosis?
Rt ventricular pressure overload