Background Knowledge - Self Assessment Questions

a) constant between races
b) 15 per thousand live births
c) 10 per thousand live births
d) 5 per thousand live births
e) increasing

a) Vitamin deficiency
b) Trisomy 21
c) 22q11 Deletion
d) Digoxin
e) Coxsackie virus

a) 40% of children have associated problems
b) 85% of all congenital heart disease is caused by 10 common conditions
c) 4 per thousand children will require an invasive cardiac intervention
d) Fetal screening can potentially identify 70% of congenital cardiac disease
e) For most pregnancies the recurrence risk is 3 times the background risk

a) 3rd week gestation
b) 7th week gestation
c) 11th week gestation
d) End of 2nd Trimester
e) End of 3rd Trimester

a) Heart lies in the right chest
b) Pulmonary veins drain to the morphological RA
c) The viscera are also inverted
d) Bronchiectasis can occur
e) Aorta lies in anterior to the pulmonary artery

a) IVC is usually complete
b) Both lungs are tri-lobed
c) P wave morphology may be variable 
d) Pulmonary veins commonly drain to both atria
e) Live vaccines should not be given

a) Double outlet right ventricle
b) Double outlet left ventricle
c) Congenitally corrected transposition
d) Transposition of great arteries
e) Single ventricle

a) There is situs inversus
b) The apex points to the right
c) Heart is in the right chest
d) Kartagener's syndrome is always present
e) Immune deficiencies occur
 

a) Myocytes
b) Myosin
c) Myoglobulin
d) Myofilaments
e) Myofibrin
 

a) Respond to sympathetic stimulation
b) Respond to arteriolar pressure
c) Secrete aldosterone
d) Secrete renin
e) Respond to sodium concentration in tubules