CARDIAC IMAGING 1 Flashcards
(100 cards)
What determines Thoracic Situs
- Tracheobronchial Tree
- Left PA above Left Bronchus (hyarterial bronchus)
- Right PA below Right Bronchys (eparterial bronchus)
- Left main bronchus longer than right main bronchus

Norwood procedure
- when is it done?
- what does the procedure entail?
- within days of birth (HLHS)
- tiny aorta is anastomosed to pulmonary trunk and arch is augmented with a graft
- ASD is enlarged
- PDA is ligated (to prevent overshunting)
- BT shunt between Right subclavian artery and right pulmonary artery

Where should the tip of an Intraaortic Balloon Pump (IABP) be?

Intraaortic Balloon Pump (IABP)
Tip should be located just distal to the takeoff of the left subclavian artery (LSA) and be 2–4 cm below aortic knob. Inflation may be seen during diastole.
The balloon should be located in the proximal descending aorta, just below the origin of the left subclavian artery. On a chest radiograph, it should be at the level of the AP window. This ideally results in the balloon terminating just above the splanchnic vessels 3.
Case courtesy of Assoc Prof Craig Hacking, Radiopaedia.org, rID: 66474
Case courtesy of Assoc Prof Frank Gaillard, Radiopaedia.org, rID: 19299

Pre cardiology workup for systolic murmur.
Patient Data
Age:60 years
Gender:Female
what is the dx?
what sign is demonstrated

- Pulmonary valvular stenosis - Chen sign and post stenotic dilatation of the left pulmonary artery
- The patient is rotated to the right.
- The left pulmonary artery is grossly enlarged.
- The right pulmonary artery and hilum appear normal.
- The peripheral pulmonary arteries are more prevalent in the left base compared to the right (Chen sign).
- Heart size is normal.
- The lungs and pleural surfaces are clear.
- No signs of pulmonary edema.
- Cardiology workup diagnosed pulmonary valve stenosis due to congenital bicuspid valvular anatomy.
Chen sign is described as the prominence of left basal pulmonary vasculature compared to the right base due to the asymmetric increase in pulmonary blood flow to the left lung. It is secondary to preferential blood flow into the left pulmonary artery after passing through the stenosed pulmonary valve during systole.
Enlargement of the left pulmonary artery is secondary to the same effect, causing post stenotic dilatation.
DDx of Boot shaped heart

- Paediatrics
- Tetralogy of Fallot
- Adult
- loculated pleural effusion
- cardiac anerysm
- Pericardial cyst
3 ddx of mesocardial Delayed Myocardial Enhancement (MRI)
Mesocardial Delayed Myocardial Enhancement (MRI)
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (CM)
- Dilated CM
- Chagas disease

What are the three segments of the right cardiac margin?
- SVC
- RA
- IVC

5 Ddx T1 Bright Cardiac Lesions
T1 Bright Cardiac Lesions
- Benign
- Thrombus (no enhancement)
- Lipoma (T1 bright, use fat saturation)
- Myxoma (T2 bright, variable enhancement)
- Lipomatous hypertrophy of the interatrial septum
- Malignant (enhances)
- Angiosarcoma
Fontan
Glenn + closure of ASD + shunt between right atrium to left PA

What are the causes of post capilary hypertension?
3
3
- Postcapillary HTN
- Cardiac
- LV failure
- Mitral stenosis
- LA myxoma
- Pulmonary venous
- Idiopathic venoocclusive disease
- Thrombosis
- tumour
- Cardiac

Congestive Heart Failure by age
- Premature:
- First week:
- Second week:
- Infant:
- Child:
Congestive Heart Failure by age
- Premature: PDA
- First week: hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS)
- Second week: coarctation
- Infant: VSD
- Child: ASD
aortic regurg has which of the following on Xray
- Calcification
- CHF
- Left atrial enlargement
- Left ventricular Enlargement
aortic regurg has which of the following on Xray
- Calcification
- CHF
- Left atrial enlargement
- Left ventricular Enlargement ++

What are the causes of Abnormal Left Heart Contour?
Re:
- Pressure overload
- Volume overload
- Wall Abnormalities
- Abnormal Left Heart Contour
- Pressure overload (normal heart size)
- Aortic or mitral stenosis
- Systemic HTN
- Coarctation
- Volume overload (large heart disease)
- Mitral or aortic regurgitation
- Shunts: ASD, VSD
- High-output states
- End-stage heart failure of any given cause
- Wall abnormalities
- Aneurysm, infarct
- Cardiomyopathy
- Pressure overload (normal heart size)
ET tube placement
Endotracheal Tube (ET)
Inflated cuff should not bulge tracheal wall.
Tip of ET should be above the carina and below thoracic inlet:
Neutral neck: 4–6 cm above carina
Flexed neck: moves tip inferiorly by 2 cm
Extended neck: moves tip superiorly by 2 cm
DDx for Atoll (Reverse halo)
- Organizing pneumonia
- fungal pneumonia
- TB
- Wegener’s
- pulmonary infarct
What devices are imaged?
Where are the leads placed?

1 PPM
2: Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD)

How often is a right sided Aortic arch a/w Congenital heart disease?
What are the top 5 associatied Congenital Heart diseases?

- Right AA and CHD
- Associations
-
Right AAs are associated with CHD in 5%
- TA, 35%
- Tetralogy of Fallot, 30%
- Pulmonary atresia with VSD, 20%
- TGA, 5%
- Tricuspid atresia, 5%
- DORV
- Pseudotruncus
- Asplenia
- Pink tetralogy
-
Right AAs are associated with CHD in 5%
- Associations
- Right Aortic Arch. The aortic knob is not visible in its normal position on the left (redarrow). The knob (white arrow) and descending thoracic aorta (black arrows) are seen on the right. This patient did not have congenital heart disease.
- http://learningradiology.com/notes/cardiacnotes/rightarchespage.htm
http: //learningradiology.com/notes/cardiacnotes/rightarchespage.htm
DDx of Pulmonary Edema in NewBorns
- Cardiac
- Edema + large heart:
- hypoplastic RV or
- LV edema + normal heart:
- TAPVC below diaphragm
- TTN
- Pulmonary lymphangiectasia
- Other rare CHD causing obstruction to pulmonary venous return:
- Pulmonary vein atresia
- Cor triatriatum
- Supravalvular mitral ring
- Parachute MV
what does coronary dominance mean?
Dominance
- This refers to the artery that ultimately supplies the diaphragmatic aspect of the interventricular septum (IVS) and the LV.
- 85% of patients have right-sided dominance: RCA is larger than LCA and gives rise to the AV nodal artery.
- 10% of patients have left-sided dominance: LCA is larger than RCA and gives rise to the AV nodal artery.
- 5% of patients have a balanced coronary artery tree (codominant): two posterior descending arteries are present, one from the left circumflex and one from the rca
4 Complications of Swan Ganz Catheter placement
Complications
- Pulmonary infarct
- Pulmonary hemorrhage
- PA pseudoaneurysm
- Infection
- aka
- Swan-Ganz catheter (or ‘the yellow snake’)
- USES
- continuous cardiac output monitoring
- central temperature monitoring
- measurement of pulmonary artery pressure (can also measure RA and RV pressures during insertion)
- measurement of mixed venous saturations
- estimation of diastolic filling of left heart (normal PCWP 2-12mmHg)
- Settings it is commonly used are:
- right ventricular failure
- pulmonary hypertension
- weaning failure of cardiac origin
- post-cardiac surgery
https://litfl.com/pulmonary-artery-catheter/

most common location for bronchial atresia
apico-posterior segment of left upper lobe
Aortic Stenosis has which of the following on Xray
- Calcification
- CHF
- Left atrial enlargement
- Left ventricular Enlargement

Aortic Stenosis has which of the following on Xray
- Calcification +++
- CHF
- Left atrial enlargement
- Left ventricular Enlargement

ddx for small heart
- Addison’s disease
- cachectic state
- constrictive pericarditis
Bentall procedure
composite graft replacement of aortic valve, aortic root, and ascending aorta with re-implantation of coronary arteries into graft
- used to treat combined aortic valve and ascending aorta disease, including Marfans





































