Congenital Heart Malformations Made Easy (8 Main Types)
Rhesus Medicine · 9 Oct 2023 · 19 min
Summary
An explainer covering the main types of congenital heart disease, split into left-to-right shunts (VSD, ASD, PDA, anomalous pulmonary venous connections) and right-to-left lesions (tetralogy of Fallot, TGA, Ebstein's anomaly), plus coarctation of the aorta. It reviews normal cardiac anatomy and physiology and the pathophysiology of shunting including Eisenmenger's syndrome, with heart sound examples.
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