Exam 30: Alterations of Cardiovascular Function in Children

How do children with tetralogy of Fallot compensate to relieve hypoxic spells?

The purpose of the foramen ovale is to allow a right-to-left shunt necessary for fetal circulation.

Fetal heart contractions begin by approximately the twenty-eighth day of gestation.

MATCHING Match the phrases with the corresponding terms. -Bulbus cordis

An infant has a loud,harsh,holosystolic murmur and systolic thrill that can be detected at the left lower sternal border that radiates to the neck.These clinical findings are consistent with which congenital heart defect?

What is the most important clinical manifestation of aortic coarctation in the neonate?

The foramen ovale is covered by a flap that creates a check valve allowing blood to flow unidirectionally from the _____ to the _____.

Which of the following statements is true?

Kawasaki disease is a self-limiting systemic vasculitis.

Lesions that increase the pulmonary blood flow are called right-to-left shunts.

Coarctation of the aorta may be located:

All hypertension in children is considered primary hypertension.

Diagnosis of primary hypertension in children is difficult since the early stages are often asymptomatic.

Congenital heart defects that cause acyanotic congestive heart failure usually involve:

MATCHING Match the phrases with the corresponding terms. -Truncus arteriosus

Which heart defect produces a systolic ejection murmur at the right upper sternal border that transmits to the neck and left lower sternal border with an occasional ejection click?

Which of the following is consistent with the cardiac defect of transposition of the great vessels?

Closure of the ductus arteriosus normally occurs immediately after birth.

Complete transposition of the great vessels is a congenital heart defect in which the left ventricle pumps blood to the pulmonary circulation.

Most cardiovascular development occurs between the fourth and seventh weeks of gestation.