Category: Cardiology
General Cardiology
Long systolic murmur with severe cyanosis in Tetralogy of Fallot can occur with absent pulmonary valve, restrictive VSD or AV canal defect (MR/TR murmur)
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General Cardiology
Venesection in cyanotic heart disease is done in symptomatic polycythemia with Hb > 20 gm% & hematocrit > 65 % and is replaced with equal amount of saline
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General Cardiology
Admixture lesions are cyanotic congenital heart diseases with near equal saturations in aorta and pulmonary artery.
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General Cardiology
TGA like physiology can be seen in D- TGA with VSD and no PS, DORV with VSD and no PS, tricuspid atresia with VSD and no PS etc.
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General Cardiology
Fallot like physiology – cyanotic heart disease with low pulmonary blood flow
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Angiography and Interventions
Bilateral carotid artery stenosis can be tackled by careful stenting in a staged manner with low risk.
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Cardiac Surgery
Pulmonary artery banding is used to reduce the pulmonary blood flow in situations of high pulmonary blood flow as a result of left to right shunts.
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General Cardiology
Commonest great artery relationship in DORV is side by side. Other types are NRGA like, D-TGA like and L-TGA like great artery relationships.
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Angiography and Interventions
Asymmetric VSD closure device has been designed for the closure of:
a) Sub-pulmonic VSD
b) Peri-membraneous VSD
c) Muscular VSD
d) Inlet VSD
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Angiography and Interventions
An asymmetric VSD closure device is found to decrease the chance of complete heart block.
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