Congenital Heart Disease

PANCE Prep Pearls has fantastic illustrations along with a table that makes it easy to compare all congenital heart diseases

Jorge Muniz, creator of Medcomic, is an artist and absolute genius. Using his representations of different pathologies definitely helped me better grasp subjects in PA school.

Tetralogy of Fallot

You have to memorize the four factors of Tetralogy of Fallot:

Overriding Aorta
Ventricular Septal Defect
Pulmonary Stenosis
Right Ventricular Hypertrophy

Atrial Septal Defect

“Widely split fixed Split S2 sound that does not vary with respiration”

Ventricular Septal Defect

“Harsh, holosystolic murmur at the lower left sternal border”

Patent Ductus Arteriosis

“Continuous machine like murmur”

Coarctation of the Aorta

“Delayed Femoral Pulses”

“Increase BP in the upper > lower extremities”

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