Congenital cardiac disease with cyanosis
Congenital cardiac disease with cyanosis implies that cyanosis is a major feature at presentation.
They are disorders where the shunt is right to left. These conditions are uncommon, especially in adults, since there is a high mortality if corrective cardiac surgery is not undertaken.
There are many examples of cyanotic congenital heart disease. More well known include:
- Fallot's tetralogy
- pulmonary stenosis
- Eisenmenger's syndrome
- transposition of the great vessels
- total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage
- tricuspid atresia
- pulmonary atresia
Clubbing of the fingers and toes is associated with cyanotic congenital heart disease - it does not appear until approximately 3 months of age. Clubbing appears first in the thumb (1).
Reference
- Sun R et al. Congenital Heart Disease: Causes, Diagnosis, Symptoms, and Treatments. Cell Biochem Biophys. 2015 Jul;72(3):857-60.
Related pages
- Right/left development of the heart
- Cor triatriatum
- Diverticulum of the left ventricle
- Ectopia cordis
- Eisenmenger's complex
- Hypoplastic left heart syndrome
- Pulmonary atresia
- Single ventricle
- Tetralogy of Fallot
- Total anomalous pulmonary venous return
- Transposition of the great arteries
- Tricuspid atresia
- Truncus arteriosus
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