All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

Syndromes in CHD (congenital heart disease)

Sudden death in young athletes could be due to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, commotio cordis, coronary anomalies, aortic stenosis and long QT syndrome.

Hypoplastic left heart syndrome: hypoplasia of left heart at multiple levels - hypoplastic left ventricle, aortic atresia and a hypoplastic ascending aorta.

Innocent murmurs may be heard in up to fifty percent of normal children. Still’s murmur is a common innocent murmur of childhood.

Short QT syndrome is characterised by an abnormally short QT interval and a propensity to develop atrial and ventricular arrhythmias.

Intracoronary thrombus detection by CMR is by non contrast enhanced T1 weighted imaging, utilising the short T1 of methemoglobin in the acute thrombus.

Uninterpretable risk score for coronary CT angiography associated with: diabetes, hypertension, COPD, sedentary lifestyle, BMI, age, and history of AF.

Supravalvar aortic stenosis is often part of the William's syndrome with hypercalcemia, elfin facies and learning disability associated.

Role for cardiac catheterisation in GUCH has come down remarkably with availability of echocardiography, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and CT.

Computed tomography has an excellent role in the assessment of grown up congenital heart disease (GUCH) It is good for imaging arteries and veins.