Dyslipidemia in Children — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: _____ criteria is used to diagnose congenital heart disease in children.

Answer: Nadas criteria

Flashcard 2: Treatment for Kawasaki disease includes _____ and IVIG

Answer: aspirin

Flashcard 3: According to the American heart association and Europian cardiac society, high-risk cardiac lesions include:Incompletely repaired congenital heart disease with residual _____ or valvular regurgitation.

Answer: shunt

Flashcard 4: What is the reason for cardiomegaly in Tetralogy of Fallot (ToF)?

Answer: There is typically **no cardiomegaly** in Tetralogy of Fallot (ToF).

Extra: In ToF, the heart size is characteristically normal, though it has a **'boot-shaped' appearance** (coeur en sabot) on chest X-ray due to right ventricular hypertrophy and a concave pulmonary artery segment.

Flashcard 5: Children with acute Kawasaki disease should be treated with 2g/kg of IVIG and _____-dose aspirin (80-100 mg/kg/day)

Answer: high

Flashcard 6: _____ cardiomyopathy may be caused by endocardial fibroelastosis, which is a thick fibroelastic tissue in the endocardium; most commonly affects young children

Answer: Restrictive

Flashcard 7: According to the American Heart Association and European Society of Cardiology, high-risk cardiac lesions (for infective endocarditis prophylaxis) include: _____ cyanotic congenital heart disease, including palliative shunts or conduits.

Answer: Unrepaired

Flashcard 8: Smaller ventricular septal defects are often _____ and may close spontaneously, but on physical exam will present with a murmur

Answer: asymptomatic

Flashcard 9: D-transposition of great vessels is an example of a _____-to-left shunt

Answer: right

Flashcard 10: Pulmonary atresia results in no flow from _____ to lungs

Answer: right ventricle