• A cyanotic heart defect is any congenital heart defect (CHD) that occurs due to deoxygenated blood bypassing the lungs and entering the systemic circulation...
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    Marfan syndrome. Congenital heart defects are divided into two main groups: cyanotic heart defects and non-cyanotic heart defects, depending on whether the...
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    Medications: Digoxin/Lanoxin Diuretics: Furosemide/Lasix Surgery Cyanotic heart defect Pillitteri, Adele (2013-11-25). Maternal and Child Health Nursing:...
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    been applied to cyanosis as a result of:. Cyanotic heart disease, which is a category of congenital heart defect that results in low levels of oxygen in...
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  • also Category:Congenital heart defects Aortic coarctation (Aortic coarctation) Acyanotic heart defect Atrial septal defect Cor triatriatum Dextro-Transposition...
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    Cardiology (redirect from Heart disorders)
    Marfan syndrome. Congenital heart defects are divided into two main groups: cyanotic heart defects and non-cyanotic heart defects, depending on whether the...
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    Tetralogy of Fallot (category Congenital heart defects)
    where they turn cyanotic, have difficulty breathing, become limp, and occasionally lose consciousness. Other symptoms may include a heart murmur, finger...
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    the body. These are known as cyanotic congenital heart defects and are often more serious. Major congenital heart defects are often picked up in childhood...
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    right ventricle, are underdeveloped. This defect causes inadequate blood flow to the lungs, and thus a cyanotic infant. Common symptoms include a grayish-blue...
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    Classic for a ventricular septal defect (VSD). This may lead to the development of the delayed-onset cyanotic heart disease known as Eisenmenger syndrome...
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    Cyanosis (redirect from Cyanotic)
    increased amounts of red blood cells (e.g., polycythemia vera) can appear cyanotic even with lower concentrations of deoxyhemoglobin. Central cyanosis is...
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    difference > 3 °C Respiratory dysfunction (in the absence of a cyanotic heart defect or a known chronic respiratory disease) the ratio of the arterial...
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    Transposition of the great vessels (category Congenital heart defects)
    systems are created. It is called a cyanotic congenital heart defect (CHD) because the newborn infant turns blue (cyanotic) from the lack of oxygen.[citation...
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    Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) is a rare congenital heart defect in which the left side of the heart is severely underdeveloped and incapable...
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    Blalock–Thomas–Taussig shunt (category Congenital heart defects)
    children with this disorder, had observed that children with a cyanotic heart defect and a patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) lived longer than those without...
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  • "Consensus on timing of intervention for common congenital heart diseases: part II - cyanotic heart defects". Indian Journal of Pediatrics. 80 (8): 663–74. doi:10...
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    called transposition of the great arteries), a life-threatening cyanotic congenital heart defect seen in infants. It is performed prior to an arterial switch...
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    procedure, atrial balloon septostomy on newborn infants born with a cyanotic heart defect caused by transposition of the great arteries, speaking at a meeting...
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    prevent closure of ductus arteriosus in newborns with particular cyanotic heart defects (PGE1) As a vasodilator in severe Raynaud syndrome or ischemia of...
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    organs. This is a list of syndromes that may affect the heart. Syndromes affecting primarily the heart are written in bold letters. RESERVED, INSERM US14--...
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    ill, cyanotic, cachectic and occasionally jaundiced.[citation needed] On auscultation, an accentuated second pulmonary sound (S2), a third heart sound...
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  • vessel. While this was going on, Taussig observed that infants with cyanotic heart defects such as Tetralogy of Fallot or pulmonary atresia often fared remarkably...
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  • Taussig–Bing syndrome (category Congenital heart defects)
    is a cyanotic congenital heart defect in which the patient has both double outlet right ventricle (DORV) and subpulmonic ventricular septal defect (VSD)...
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  • Paediatric surgery Palliative surgical procedure to treat infants with cyanotic heart defects Blalock-Taussig operation at Who Named It? Burrow's triangle excision...
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  • Rastelli procedure (category Congenital heart defects)
    and two years of age. Since d-TGA, overriding aorta and DORV are cyanotic heart defects, the child is palliated with a Blalock–Thomas–Taussig shunt in the...
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    Infective endocarditis (category Valvular heart disease)
    Artificial heart valves Intracardiac devices, such as implantable cardioverter-defibrillators Unrepaired cyanotic congenital heart defects History of...
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    Ebstein's anomaly (category Congenital heart defects)
    Ebstein's anomaly is a congenital heart defect in which the septal and posterior leaflets of the tricuspid valve are displaced downwards towards the apex...
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  • primary congenital defects that lead to blue baby syndrome. In this condition, defects in the great vessels and wall of the heart lead to a chronic lack...
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    Dextro-Transposition of the great arteries (category Congenital heart defects)
    birth defect in the large arteries of the heart. The primary arteries (the aorta and the pulmonary artery) are transposed. It is called a cyanotic congenital...
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    oxygenated blood to enter the systemic circulation in some cases of cyanotic congenital heart defect (CHD).[citation needed] After the catheter is inserted, the...
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