Congenital defects — Flashcards

If you hear bowel sounds over the lungs and there's a scaphoid abdomen in a dyspneic baby think _____

Why are children with cyanotic congenital heart disease (e.g. tetralogy of Fallot) at an increased risk for brain abscess? _____

Some VSDs are asymptomatic at birth due to _____

Hint: reason

Does congenital hypothyroidism present with hepatomegaly? _____

The features of a chromosome 22q11 microdeletion (DiGeorge Syndrome) may be remembered with the mnemonic "CATCH 22": C: _____ A: _____ T: _____ C: _____ H: _____ 22: chromosome affected

Could present as failure to pass meconium in a 2 day old, or as constipation in a 2 year old? _____

Snuffles and Hutchinson (notched) teeth = _____

What are common causes of intestinal atresia? (2) _____

What is the likely diagnosis in an infant that presents with failure to thrive, absent lymph nodes, and leukopenia with a history of Pneumocystis jirovecii and Candida infection? _____

What is cause of meconium ileus? _____