EXAM 2 - CHD Flashcards
Indications for cardiac surgery in adults with CHD include:
Primary Repair
Total correction after palliation
Revision of total correction
Conversion of suboptimal operation into more modern repair
**Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome is associated with what CHD/lesion?
Ebstein’s anomaly
**A.Fib is associated with what CHD/lesion(s)?
Mitral Valve disease
Aortic Stenosis
Tetralogy of Fallot
Palliated single ventricle
**Ventricular Tachycardia is associated with what CHD/lesion(s)?
Tetralogy of Fallot
Aortic Stenosis
(others)
Spontaneous AV Block is associated with what CHD/lesion(s)?
AV Septal defects
Congenitally corrected transposition
Surgically induced AV Block is associated with what CHD/lesion(s)?
VSD Closure
Subaortic Stenosis Relief
AV Valve Replacement
Minute ventilation =
RR x TV
Any lesion that results in either increased pulmonary blood flow or pulmonary venous obstruction can cause what three things?
- ) increased pulmonary interstitial fluid with
- ) decreased pulmonary compliance and
- ) increased work of breathing.
**pts with cyanotic heart disease will have an increased ___ and maintain ____.
increased minute ventilation
maintain normocarbia (they have a normal ventilatory response to hypercapnia but a blunted response to hypoxemia.)
patients with cyanotic heart disease have a normal ventilatory response to hypercapnia but a blunted
response to hypoxemia.
**What non cardiac issue can occur in approx. 19% of pts with CHD (most commonly in cyanotic pts)?
scoliosis
Is Eisenmenger Syndrome acyanotic or cyanotic CHD?
cyanotic
Describe Eisenmenger Syndrome:
a large VSD with displacement of aorta to the RIGHT
- Occurs when intracardiac shunt reverse and becomes right to LEFT shunt
- frequent in children but can occur in late stage adults
Longstanding hypoxemia causes increased red blood cell mass. Some CHD patients develop:
- excessive HCT (Polycythemia)
- and are Iron deficient
*Increased viscosity
what direction does iron deficiency shift the oxy-hgb curve?
RIGHT
decreasing O2 affininty for lungs
Adults with persistent or potential intracardiac shunts remain at risk for…
why?
Parodoxic embolism
-venous embolism passes through a lateral opening in the heart into arterial circulation.
Brain abscesses are associated with what in CHD patients?
- they result from right to left shunts
- old brain abscess ==> seizures
End Stage Eisenmenger Syndrome is associated with what respiratory symptom?
hemoptysis
RLN injury is a potential noncardiac involvement in pts with CHD. Why?
prior thoracic surgery
rarely from encroachment of cardiac structures
Common hematologic involvement in CHD patients includes:
- *Abnormal Von Willebrand factor
- bleeding diathesis
- symptomatic hyperviscosity
Cardiac Complications/ Peripartum endocarditis presents when? up to?
presents usually in the last month of pregnancy and up to 5 mos postpartum
in pregnancy, Most major physiologic changes occur prior to
the 3rd trimester.
IF patient has maintained good FUNCTIONAL status to this point, risk is dramatically lowered
During pregnancy, with CHD, what requires close observation?
bearing down that is associated with stage 2
Oxytocin to SVR, HR, PVR
decreases SVR
Increases HR and PVR