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Ventricular Septal Defect
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History
Cardiac Exam
Appearance
Blood Pressure
Carotid Pulse
Jugular Pulse
Precordial Impulses
Cardiac Ausc. Upper Right
Cardiac Ausc. Upper Left
Cardiac Ausc. Lower Left
Cardiac Ausc. Apex
Pulmonary Ausc.
Diagnosis
Summary
Labs
ECG
X Rays
Doppler -Echo
Catheterization
Treatment
Large VSD
Complications
Pathology
Labs - ECG
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- this patient's electrocardiogram demonstrates biventricular hypertrophy and left atrial enlargement.
Your choice:
Right ventricular hypertrophy and right atrial enlargement
This electrocardiogram in a one-year-old infant demonstrates right ventricular hypertrophy and right atrial enlargement. The characteristic features of right ventricular hypertrophy include right axis deviation of the QRS, reflected by
predominantly negative complexes
in lead I.
QR pattern with positive T waves
in precordial lead V3R. And
tall 100% R waves with positive T waves
in lead V1. The characteristic feature of right atrial enlargement is the
4 mm, peaked P waves
in leads II and aVF.
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