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1. Heart - Pathology Congenital Heart Disease
MC type of heart disease among children
MC type= VSD
Etiology and Pathogenesis
Multifactorial = majority of cases
Developmental
Trisomy 21 (Down syndrome)
MC known genetic cause
Endocardial cushion defects (AVSD) & ASD
Di -George syndrome with TOF
Environment= infection (congenital rubella) or teratogens
2. Heart - Pathology Congenital Heart Disease
Clinical Features
Malformations causing
left-to-right shunt
right-to-left shunt
Obstruction
Mechanisms - left-to-right shunt
3. Heart - Pathology Congenital Heart Disease
Mechanisms - right-to-left shunt
4. Heart - Pathology Congenital Heart Disease
Mechanisms - others
5. Heart - Pathology Congenital Heart Disease
Left-to-right shunts
ASD, VSD, and Patent Ductus Arteriosus [PDA]
Congenitally acyanotic
Late cyanotic congenital heart disease or Eisenmenger syndrome
ASD
MC congenital cardiac anomaly asymptomatic until adulthood
Secundum ASD =90% of all ASDs
Defect is due to deficient or fenestrated oval fossa
Volume hypertrophy of RA & RV
Pulmonary blood flow - 2 to 4 times normal
Murmur at pulmonary area
Complications = uncommon
Normal postoperative survival
6. Heart - Pathology Congenital Heart Disease
VSD
Most common congenital cardiac anomaly (42%)
Spontaneously close in half of patients
? rd are associated with other defects (TOF)
clinically = Size is most critical
Morphology
Membranous VSD(90%)
Swiss-cheese septum =Multiple muscular septum VSDs
Right ventricular hypertrophy and pulmonary hypertension are present from birth
Rx = Surgical closure indicated at age 1 year with large defects
7. Heart - Pathology Congenital Heart Disease
PDA
Majority are isolated defects (90%)
Others (10%)-associated with VSD, COA, or PS, AS
No functional difficulties at birth & childhood
Continuous harsh machinery-like murmur
PDA is Life-threatening or life-saving
prostaglandin E ? preservation of ductal patency
? Drug closes PDA
AVSD
(endocardial cushion defect )
Superior & inferior endocardial cushions fail to fuse
? Inadequate formation of the AV valves
MC with Down syndrome
8. Heart - Pathology Congenital Heart Disease Right to left shunts Tetralogy of Fallot - MC cyanotic congenital heart disease Transposition of the great arteries Tricuspid atresia Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection Truncus Arteriosus