31 Congenital Heart Disease
- central cyanosis: seen in congenital heart disease in babies
- warm extremities: perfused with warm blood, just not enough O2
Tetralogy
Pathogenesis
- pic: aorta shifted to right, override ventricular septum with VSD, thick RV walls, stenotic PV
- all abnormalities caused by infundibulum/conus arteriosus "monology of fallot"
- pic: white infundibulum moving towards RV, dragging aorta with it to cause aorta to override RV, also creating VSD
- restricts flow of pulmonary artery
- deoxygenated blood diverted away from lung to LV and systemic circulation
- pink tets: mild obstruction, less cyanosis
Symptoms
- boot shaped heart
- hypertrophic RV and apex misplaced
- knit femoral arteries when squatting
Truncus Arteriosus
- normally truncus divides into aorta or PA
- persists = common trunk
- mixing of blood = cyanosis
Transposition of great vessels
- D transposition
- VSD: allow RV/LV mix
- PDA: allow Ao PA mix
- rare variant
- RV fail from not being able to take aorta pressure
- transposition most common
Tricuspid Atresia
- only case to be compatible with life
- 2 shunts to allow blood flow
TAPVR
- mixed blood with low O2, cyanosis
Ebstein's
- cyanosis and HF from tricuspid regurge
Pulmonary Atresia
- in utero not a problem
- VSD: allows blood to exit ventricle
Conotruncal Heart Defect
- arteriosus: form outflow of LV and RV
- classic: DiGeorge, develop any conotruncal problems
Coarctation
- preductal: before ductus arteriosus insertion
Preductal
- DA supplying lower body = no need for collateral vessel development in womb
- cyanosis: blood bypass lung via DA and to lower extremities
- all blood has to go through narrowing
- baby into heart failure/shock in day 2 of life
- narrowing of aorta usually in thoracic region
Postductal
- good: no HF in babies
- bad: asymptomatic until adult
- delay between when feel brachial vs femoral pulse
- young person with htn
- rarely, poor blood flow to lower body: pain/ischemia with walking
- xray: aortic knob and below
- not flushed in upper extremities or cyanotic in lower extremities because of autoregulation
- endovascular infection: infection inside vascular tree
- endocarditis: heart valves
- endarteritis: artery
- coarctation part of a bigger problem of vasculature
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