VSD Shunt direction
Left to right
Eisenmenger
Can develop from large VSD over time
Heart failure
Bidirectional shunt
Large VSD Murmur
Soft pansystolic LSE
Loud second heart sound (Raised pulmonary arterial pressure)
Laterally displaced apex
Small VSD Murmur
Loud and harsh
Pansystolic
LLSE
Large VSD ECG
Left and Right ventricular hypertrophy
Dominant R wave in V1 + RAD (RVH)
Dominant R wave in V4/5/6 (LVH)
Pulmonary HTN (tall p wave)
First heart sound
Closure of atrioventricular valves
Mitral and tricuspid
2nd Heart sound
Aortic first
Pulmonary second
ASD murmur
Left to Right shunt
Wide, fixed splitting of S2
LUSE
PDA murmur
Continuous machinery murmur
Normal ECG Axis
-30 to 90
Right axis
> 90
Left axis
-30 to -90
Extreme axis
-90 to -150
Long QT syndromes
LQT1
LQT2
LQT3
Prolonged QTc
Each has different genetic mutation for component of cardiac myocyte ion channels
Late ventricular repolarisation
Duration of smallest square
0.04ms
QTc upper limit
480ms
Ventricular repolarisation ions
Outward flow or potassium
Inward flow of sodium + calcium
Delayed potassium extrusion in myocyte
Prolonged QT interval
Speeding up of sodium or calcium influx
Prolonged QT interval
LQT1
KCNQ1 defect
Jervell and Lange-Nielson
Most common channelopathy
Vigorous exercise
Slow potassium ion channels
Also linked with congenital deafness (K+ channels in ear)
Twave = broad based and prominent
LQT2
KCNH2
Slows potassium ion channels
Emotional stress/ startle
Low amplitude T waves (can be notched)
LQT3
SCN5A
Romano Ward
Cardiac sodium ion channels, sped up.
Sleep or rest
Late onset, peaked T wave
GDM Effects on fetus
Foetal hyperglycaemia
Hyperinsulinemia
Hyperplasia of pancreatic islet B cells
Increased foetal growth (excluding brain)
GDM Baby Cardiac
Cardiomegaly
Asymmetry of ventricular septum