 
        
        - •Dedication
- •Editors and Contributors
- •Foreword
- •Preface
- •Contents
- •PREPARING FOR THE SURGERY CLERKSHIP
- •SURGICAL NOTES
- •COMMON ABBREVIATIONS YOU SHOULD KNOW
- •RETRACTORS (YOU WILL GET TO KNOW THEM WELL!)
- •SUTURE MATERIALS
- •WOUND CLOSURE
- •KNOTS AND EARS
- •INSTRUMENT TIE
- •TWO-HAND TIE
- •COMMON PROCEDURES
- •NASOGASTRIC TUBE (NGT) PROCEDURES
- •CHEST TUBES
- •NASOGASTRIC TUBES (NGT)
- •FOLEY CATHETER
- •CENTRAL LINES
- •MISCELLANEOUS
- •THIRD SPACING
- •COMMON IV REPLACEMENT FLUIDS (ALL VALUES ARE PER LITER)
- •CALCULATION OF MAINTENANCE FLUIDS
- •ELECTROLYTE IMBALANCES
- •ANTIBIOTICS
- •STEROIDS
- •HEPARIN
- •WARFARIN (COUMADIN®)
- •MISCELLANEOUS AGENTS
- •NARCOTICS
- •MISCELLANEOUS
- •ATELECTASIS
- •POSTOPERATIVE RESPIRATORY FAILURE
- •PULMONARY EMBOLISM
- •ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA
- •GASTROINTESTINAL COMPLICATIONS
- •ENDOCRINE COMPLICATIONS
- •CARDIOVASCULAR COMPLICATIONS
- •MISCELLANEOUS
- •HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK
- •SEPTIC SHOCK
- •CARDIOGENIC SHOCK
- •NEUROGENIC SHOCK
- •MISCELLANEOUS
- •URINARY TRACT INFECTION (UTI)
- •CENTRAL LINE INFECTIONS
- •WOUND INFECTION (SURGICAL SITE INFECTION)
- •NECROTIZING FASCIITIS
- •CLOSTRIDIAL MYOSITIS
- •SUPPURATIVE HIDRADENITIS
- •PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS
- •PROPHYLACTIC ANTIBIOTICS
- •PAROTITIS
- •MISCELLANEOUS
- •CHEST
- •ABDOMEN
- •MALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA
- •MISCELLANEOUS
- •OVERVIEW
- •CHOLECYSTOKININ (CCK)
- •SECRETIN
- •GASTRIN
- •SOMATOSTATIN
- •MISCELLANEOUS
- •GROIN HERNIAS
- •HERNIA REVIEW QUESTIONS
- •ESOPHAGEAL HIATAL HERNIAS
- •PRIMARY SURVEY
- •SECONDARY SURVEY
- •TRAUMA STUDIES
- •PENETRATING NECK INJURIES
- •MISCELLANEOUS TRAUMA FACTS
- •PEPTIC ULCER DISEASE (PUD)
- •DUODENAL ULCERS
- •GASTRIC ULCERS
- •PERFORATED PEPTIC ULCER
- •TYPES OF SURGERIES
- •STRESS GASTRITIS
- •MALLORY-WEISS SYNDROME
- •ESOPHAGEAL VARICEAL BLEEDING
- •BOERHAAVE’S SYNDROME
- •ANATOMY
- •GASTRIC PHYSIOLOGY
- •GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE (GERD)
- •GASTRIC CANCER
- •GIST
- •MALTOMA
- •GASTRIC VOLVULUS
- •SMALL BOWEL
- •APPENDICITIS
- •CLASSIC INTRAOPERATIVE QUESTIONS
- •APPENDICEAL TUMORS
- •SPECIFIC TYPES OF FISTULAS
- •ANATOMY
- •COLORECTAL CARCINOMA
- •COLONIC AND RECTAL POLYPS
- •POLYPOSIS SYNDROMES
- •DIVERTICULAR DISEASE OF THE COLON
- •ANATOMY
- •ANAL CANCER
- •ANATOMY
- •TUMORS OF THE LIVER
- •ABSCESSES OF THE LIVER
- •HEMOBILIA
- •ANATOMY
- •PHYSIOLOGY
- •PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
- •DIAGNOSTIC STUDIES
- •BILIARY SURGERY
- •OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE
- •CHOLELITHIASIS
- •ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS
- •ACUTE ACALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS
- •CHOLANGITIS
- •SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS
- •GALLSTONE ILEUS
- •CARCINOMA OF THE GALLBLADDER
- •CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA
- •MISCELLANEOUS CONDITIONS
- •PANCREATITIS
- •PANCREATIC ABSCESS
- •PANCREATIC NECROSIS
- •PANCREATIC PSEUDOCYST
- •PANCREATIC CARCINOMA
- •MISCELLANEOUS
- •ANATOMY OF THE BREAST AND AXILLA
- •BREAST CANCER
- •DCIS
- •LCIS
- •MISCELLANEOUS
- •MALE BREAST CANCER
- •BENIGN BREAST DISEASE
- •CYSTOSARCOMA PHYLLODES
- •FIBROADENOMA
- •FIBROCYSTIC DISEASE
- •MASTITIS
- •BREAST ABSCESS
- •MALE GYNECOMASTIA
- •ADRENAL GLAND
- •ADDISON’S DISEASE
- •INSULINOMA
- •GLUCAGONOMA
- •SOMATOSTATINOMA
- •ZOLLINGER-ELLISON SYNDROME (ZES)
- •MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA
- •THYROID DISEASE
- •ANATOMY
- •PHYSIOLOGY
- •HYPERPARATHYROIDISM (HPTH)
- •PARATHYROID CARCINOMA
- •SOFT TISSUE SARCOMAS
- •LYMPHOMA
- •SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA
- •BASAL CELL CARCINOMA
- •MISCELLANEOUS SKIN LESIONS
- •STAGING
- •INTENSIVE CARE UNIT (ICU) BASICS
- •INTENSIVE CARE UNIT FORMULAS AND TERMS YOU SHOULD KNOW
- •SICU DRUGS
- •INTENSIVE CARE PHYSIOLOGY
- •HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING
- •MECHANICAL VENTILATION
- •PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE
- •LOWER EXTREMITY AMPUTATIONS
- •ACUTE ARTERIAL OCCLUSION
- •ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSMS
- •MESENTERIC ISCHEMIA
- •MEDIAN ARCUATE LIGAMENT SYNDROME
- •CAROTID VASCULAR DISEASE
- •CLASSIC CEA INTRAOP QUESTIONS
- •SUBCLAVIAN STEAL SYNDROME
- •RENAL ARTERY STENOSIS
- •SPLENIC ARTERY ANEURYSM
- •POPLITEAL ARTERY ANEURYSM
- •MISCELLANEOUS
- •PEDIATRIC IV FLUIDS AND NUTRITION
- •PEDIATRIC BLOOD VOLUMES
- •FETAL CIRCULATION
- •ECMO
- •NECK
- •ASPIRATED FOREIGN BODY (FB)
- •CHEST
- •PULMONARY SEQUESTRATION
- •ABDOMEN
- •INGUINAL HERNIA
- •UMBILICAL HERNIA
- •GERD
- •CONGENITAL PYLORIC STENOSIS
- •DUODENAL ATRESIA
- •MECONIUM ILEUS
- •MECONIUM PERITONITIS
- •MECONIUM PLUG SYNDROME
- •ANORECTAL MALFORMATIONS
- •HIRSCHSPRUNG’S DISEASE
- •MALROTATION AND MIDGUT VOLVULUS
- •OMPHALOCELE
- •GASTROSCHISIS
- •POWER REVIEW OF OMPHALOCELE AND GASTROSCHISIS
- •APPENDICITIS
- •INTUSSUSCEPTION
- •MECKEL’S DIVERTICULUM
- •NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS
- •BILIARY TRACT
- •TUMORS
- •PEDIATRIC TRAUMA
- •OTHER PEDIATRIC SURGERY QUESTIONS
- •POWER REVIEW
- •WOUND HEALING
- •SKIN GRAFTS
- •FLAPS
- •SENSORY SUPPLY TO THE HAND
- •CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME
- •ANATOMY
- •MISCELLANEOUS
- •NOSE AND PARANASAL SINUSES
- •ORAL CAVITY AND PHARYNX
- •FACIAL FRACTURES
- •ENT WARD QUESTIONS
- •RAPID-FIRE REVIEW OF MOST COMMON CAUSES OF ENT INFECTIONS
- •THORACIC OUTLET SYNDROME (TOS)
- •CHEST WALL TUMORS
- •DISEASES OF THE PLEURA
- •DISEASES OF THE LUNGS
- •DISEASES OF THE MEDIASTINUM
- •DISEASES OF THE ESOPHAGUS
- •ACQUIRED HEART DISEASE
- •CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE
- •CARDIAC TUMORS
- •DISEASES OF THE GREAT VESSELS
- •MISCELLANEOUS
- •BASIC IMMUNOLOGY
- •CELLS
- •IMMUNOSUPPRESSION
- •OVERVIEW OF IMMUNOSUPPRESSION MECHANISMS
- •MATCHING OF DONOR AND RECIPIENT
- •REJECTION
- •ORGAN PRESERVATION
- •KIDNEY TRANSPLANT
- •LIVER TRANSPLANT
- •PANCREAS TRANSPLANT
- •HEART TRANSPLANT
- •INTESTINAL TRANSPLANTATION
- •LUNG TRANSPLANT
- •TRANSPLANT COMPLICATIONS
- •ORTHOPAEDIC TERMS
- •TRAUMA GENERAL PRINCIPLES
- •FRACTURES
- •ORTHOPAEDIC TRAUMA
- •DISLOCATIONS
- •THE KNEE
- •ACHILLES TENDON RUPTURE
- •ROTATOR CUFF
- •MISCELLANEOUS
- •ORTHOPAEDIC INFECTIONS
- •ORTHOPAEDIC TUMORS
- •ARTHRITIS
- •PEDIATRIC ORTHOPAEDICS
- •HEAD TRAUMA
- •SPINAL CORD TRAUMA
- •TUMORS
- •VASCULAR NEUROSURGERY
- •SPINE
- •PEDIATRIC NEUROSURGERY
- •SCROTAL ANATOMY
- •UROLOGIC DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
- •RENAL CELL CARCINOMA (RCC)
- •BLADDER CANCER
- •PROSTATE CANCER
- •BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA
- •TESTICULAR CANCER
- •TESTICULAR TORSION
- •EPIDIDYMITIS
- •PRIAPISM
- •ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION
- •CALCULUS DISEASE
- •INCONTINENCE
- •URINARY TRACT INFECTION (UTI)
- •MISCELLANEOUS UROLOGY QUESTIONS
- •Rapid Fire Power Review
- •TOP 100 CLINICAL SURGICAL MICROVIGNETTES
- •Figure Credits
- •Index
 
| 660 Section III / Subspecialty Surgery | 
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| What are the signs/ | Murmur (new or changing) | 
| symptoms? | Petechiae | 
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 | Splinter hemorrhage (fingernails) | 
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 | Roth spots (on retina) | 
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 | Osler nodes (raised, painful on soles and | 
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 | palms; Osler Ouch!) | 
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 | Janeway lesions (similar to Osler nodes, | 
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 | but flat and painless) (JaneWAY | 
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 | pain aWAY) | 
| Which diagnostic tests | Echocardiogram, TEE | 
| should be performed? | Serial blood cultures (definitive) | 
| What is the treatment? | Prolonged IV therapy with bactericidal | 
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 | antibiotics, to which infecting | 
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 | organisms are sensitive | 
| What is the prognosis? | Infection can progress, requiring valve | 
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 | replacement | 
CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE
VENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT (VSD)
What is its claim to fame? Most common congenital heart defect
| What is it? | Failure of ventricular septum to | 
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 | completely close; 80% of cases involve | 
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 | the membranous portion of the | 
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 | septum, resulting in left-to-right shunt, | 
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 | increased pulmonary blood flow, and CHF | 
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 | if pulmonary to systemic flow is 2:1 | 
| What is pulmonary vascular | Pulmonary artery hyperplasia from | 
| obstructive disease? | increased pulmonary pressure caused by | 
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 | a left to right shunt (e.g., VSD) | 
| What is Eisenmenger’s | Irreversible pulmonary HTN from chronic | 
| syndrome? | changes in pulmonary arterioles and | 
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 | increased right heart pressures; cyanosis | 
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 | develops when the shunt reverses | 
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 | (becomes right to left across the VSD) | 
What is the treatment of Eisenmenger’s syndrome?
Only option is heart-lung transplant; otherwise, the disease is untreatable
 
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What is the incidence of VSD?
30% of heart defects (most common defect)
PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS (PDA)
| What is it? | Physiologic right-to-left shunt in fetal | 
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 | circulation connecting the pulmonary | 
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 | artery to the aorta bypassing fetal lungs; | 
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 | often, this shunt persists in the neonate | 
| What are the factors | Hypoxia, increased prostaglandins, | 
| preventing closure? | prematurity | 
| What are the symptoms? | Often asymptomatic | 
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 | Poor feeding | 
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 | Respiratory distress | 
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 | CHF with respiratory infections | 
| What are the signs? | Acyanotic, unless other cardiac lesions | 
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 | are present; continuous “machinery” | 
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 | murmur | 
| Which diagnostic tests | Physical examination | 
| should be performed? | Echocardiogram (to rule out associated | 
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 | defects) | 
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 | Catheter (seldom required) | 
| What is the medical | Indomethacin is an NSAID: | 
| treatment? | prostaglandin (PG) inhibitor (PG keeps | 
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 | PDA open) | 
| What is the surgical | Surgical ligation or cardiac | 
| treatment? | catheterization closure at 6 months to | 
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 | 2 years of age | 
| TETRALOGY OF FALLOT (TOF) | 
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| What is it? | Misalignment of the infundibular septum | 
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 | in early development, leading to the | 
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 | characteristic tetrad: | 
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 | 1. Pulmonary stenosis/obstruction of | 
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 | right ventricular outflow | 
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 | 2. Overriding aorta | 
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 | 3. Right ventricular hypertrophy | 
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 | 4. VSD | 
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| What are the symptoms? | Hypoxic spells (squatting behavior | |
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 | increases SVR and increases pulmonary | |
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 | blood flow) | |
| What are the signs? | Cyanosis | |
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 | Clubbing | |
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 | Murmur: SEM at left third intercostal | |
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 | space | 
| Which diagnostic tests | CXR: small, “boot-shaped” heart and | |
| should be performed? | 
 | decreased pulmonary blood flow | 
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 | Echocardiography | |
| What is the prognosis? | 95% survival at specialized centers | |
| IHSS | 
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| What is IHSS? | Idiopathic Hypertrophic Subaortic | |
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 | Stenosis | |
| What is it? | Aortic outflow obstruction from septal | |
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 | tissue | |
| What is the usual | Similar to aortic stenosis | |
| presentation? | 
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| COARCTATION OF THE AORTA | 
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| What is it? | Narrowing of the thoracic aorta, with or | |
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 | without intraluminal “shelf” (infolding of | |
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 | the media); usually found near ductus/ | |
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 | ligamentum arteriosum | |
| What are the three types? | 1. | Preductal (fatal in infancy if untreated) | 
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 | 2. | Juxtaductal | 
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 | 3. | Postductal | 
| What percentage are | 60% (bicuspid aortic valve is most | |
| associated with other | common) | |
| cardiac defects? | 
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| What is the major route of | Subclavian artery to the IMA to the | |
| collateral circulation? | intercostals to the descending aorta | |
| What are the risk factors? | Turner’s syndrome, male female | |
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| What are the symptoms? | Headache | 
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 | Epistaxis | 
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 | Lower extremity fatigue S claudication | 
| What are the signs? | Pulses: decreased lower extremity pulses | 
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 | Murmurs: | 
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 | 1. Systolic—from turbulence across | 
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 | coarctation, often radiating to infra- | 
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 | scapular region | 
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 | 2. Continuous—from dilated collaterals | 
| Which diagnostic tests | CXR: “3” sign is aortic knob, coarctation, | 
| should be performed? | and dilated poststenotic aorta; rib | 
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 | notching is bony erosion from dilated | 
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 | intercostal collaterals | 
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 | Echocardiogram | 
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 | Cardiac catheterization if cardiac defects | 
| What is the treatment? | Surgery: | 
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 | Resection with end-to-end anastomosis | 
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 | Subclavian artery flap | 
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 | Patch graft (rare) | 
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 | Interposition graft | 
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 | Endovascular repair an option in adults | 
| What are the indications for | Symptomatic patient | 
| surgery? | Asymptomatic patient 3 to 4 years | 
| What are the possible | Paraplegia | 
| postoperative complications? | “Paradoxic” HTN | 
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 | Mesenteric necrotizing panarteritis (GI | 
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 | bleeding), Horner’s syndrome, injury | 
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 | to recurrent laryngeal nerve | 
| What are the long-term | Aortic dissection, HTN | 
| concerns? | 
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| TRANSPOSITION OF THE GREAT VESSELS | |
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| What is it? | Aorta originates from the right ventricle | 
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 | and the pulmonary artery from the left | 
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 | ventricle; fatal without PDA, ASD, or | 
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 | VSD—to allow communication between | 
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 | the left and right circulations | 
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| What is the incidence? | From 5% to 8% of defects | 
| What are the signs/ | Most common lesion that presents with | 
| symptoms? | cyanosis and CHF in neonatal period | 
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 | ( 90% by day 1) | 
| Which diagnostic tests | CXR: “egg-shaped” heart contour | 
| should be performed? | Catheterization (definitive) | 
| What is the treatment? | Arterial switch operation—aorta and | 
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 | pulmonary artery are moved to the correct | 
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 | ventricle and the coronaries are reimplanted | 
| EBSTEIN’S ANOMALY | 
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| What is it? | Tricuspid valve is placed abnormally low | 
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 | in the right ventricle, forming a large | 
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 | right atrium and a small right ventricle, | 
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 | leading to tricuspid regurgitation and | 
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 | decreased right ventricular output | 
| What are the signs/symptoms? | Cyanosis | 
| What are the risk factors? | 400 the risk if the mother has taken | 
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 | lithium | 
| VASCULAR RINGS | 
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| What are they? | Many types; represent an anomalous devel- | 
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 | opment of the aorta/pulmonary artery from | 
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 | the embryonic aortic arch that surrounds | 
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 | and obstructs the trachea/esophagus | 
| How are they diagnosed? | Barium swallow, MRI | 
| What are the signs/ | Most prominent is stridor from tracheal | 
| symptoms? | compression | 
| CYANOTIC HEART DISEASE | 
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| What are the causes? | Five “Ts” of cyanotic heart disease: | 
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 | Tetralogy of Fallot | 
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 | Truncus arteriosus | 
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 | Totally anomalous pulmonary venous | 
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 | return (TAPVR) | 
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 | Tricuspid atresia | 
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 | Transposition of the great vessels | 
