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  #1

what is the most common cardiac anomaly in down patient?

  #2

endocardial cushion defects...

  #3

ASD?


  #4

Don't the endocardial cushions form part of the membranous interventricular septum?


  #5

asd due to endocardial cusion defects

  #6

and what about AV channel?

  #7

q bank has the answer to it endocardial cushion defects and then followed by asd...


  #8

most common is endocardial cushion defect rather than isolated ASD.


  #9

endocardial cushion defect = ASD + VSD ?

  #10

All right..cardiac defects are seen in 40% of Down's patients..

In order of decreasing fequency its

ASD, VSD > Tetrology of Fallot > PDA

GL guys!


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Courage does not always ROAR. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow" - Mary Anne Radmacher

  #11

So, just for fun...most common cardiac defects associated with deletion of short arm of Chromosome 5 (5p-) and with 45-XO??grin


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Courage does not always ROAR. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow" - Mary Anne Radmacher

  #12

45X0- coarctation of aorta

Cri du-chat- mmm... ok i'll let someone else take this.

just for more fun...A common congenital heart disease in children of diabetic moms? Heart disease that is the M.C.C of early cyanosis?


  #13

A common congenital heart disease in children of diabetic moms.. TGV

Heart disease that is the M.C.C of early cyanosis... ??TOF








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