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Congenital heart disease CXR approach

1.vascularity

2.camber enlargement

3.side of AA

4.situs

5.rib notching

Congenital heart disease
Acyanotic heart disease
Increased pulmonary vascularity?

(Left to Right Shunt)
With LA enlargement:
-VSD
-PDA
With normal LA:
-ASD
-ECD
-PAPVC and sinus venous ASD

Congenital heart disease
Acyanotic heart disease
Normal pulmonary vascularity?

Aortic stenosis
Coarctation
Pulmonic stenosis

Congenital heart disease
Cyanotic heart disease?

Normal or decreased pulmonary vascularity:
-Normal Heart Size (Tetralogy of Fallot, Fallot variants)
-Cardiomegaly RA enlargment (Ebstein's, Tricuspid atresia, Pulmonic atresia)

Congenital heart disease
Increased pulmonary vascularity?

the "5Ts:"
Transposition of the great arteries
Truncus arteriosis
Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection
Tricuspid atresia
Tingle=single ventricle

Congenital heart disease
Pulmonary edema in newborns?

Cardiac:
Edema + large heart = hypoplastic RV or LV

Edema + normal heart = TAPVC below diaphragm
Transient tachypnea of newborn
Pulmonary lymphangiectasia
Pulmonary vein atresia
Cor triatriatum
Suprvalvular mitral ring
Parachute mitral valve

Congenital heart disease
Massive cardiomegaly in the newborn?

Box-shaped right heart (RA enlarged):
Ebstein's
Uhl's
Tricuspid atresia
Herniation of liver into pericardial sac
Massive pericardial effusion

Congenital heart disease
Boot-shaped heart?

Tetralogy of Fallot
Adults:
-Loculated pleural effusion
-Cardiac aneurysm
-Pericardial cyst

Congenital heart disease with normal heart size and normal lungs?

Coarctation
Tetralogy of Fallot

Congenital heart disease
Skeletal abnormalities and heart disease?

- Rib notching: coarctation
- Hypersegmented manubrium, 11 paris of ribs: Down's
- Manubrium, sternal - Turner
- Pectus excavatum: prolapsed MV, Marfan, ASD
- Multiple sternal ossification centers: cyanotic CHD
- Bulging sternum: large L to R shunt
- Scoliosis: Marfan, Tetralogy of Fallot
- Radial ray

Congenital heart disease
Inferior rib notching?

Aortic obstruction:
-Coarctation
-Interruption of aortic arch
Subclavian artery obstruction:
-Blalock-Taussig shunt (upper 2 ribs)
-Takayasu's (unilateral)
Severely reduced pulmonary blood flow:
-Tetralogy of Fallot
-Pulmonary atresia
-Ebstein's
SVC obstruction
Vascular shunts (AVM of intercostals)
Intercostal neuroma
Osseous abnormality (Hyperparathyroidism)

Congenital heart disease
Superior rib notching?

Abnormal osteoclastic activity:
-Hyperparathyroidism
-Idiopathic
Abnormal osteoblastic activity:
-Poliomyelitis
-Collagen vascular disease
-Local pressure
-OI
-Marfan

Aortic arch anomalies
Most common types of complete vascular rings
Two most common types of complete vascular rings (85–95%)
o Double aortic arch
o Right aortic arch with left ligamentum arteriosum
Two most common types of complete vascular rings (85–95%)
o Double aortic arch
o Right aortic arch with left ligamentum arteriosum
Right aortic arch and congenital heart disease?
Truncus arteriosis (50%)
Tetralogy of Fallot (30%)
Transposition of great arteries
Tricuspid atresia
Pulmonary atresia with VSD
Double outlet right ventricle
Pseudotruncus
Asplenia
Pink tetralogy

Acquired heart disease
Approach?

Pump failure:
- Outflow obstruction
- inherent wall abnormalities


Increased end diastolic volume:
-Regurgitation
-Shunt

Acquired heart disease
Small heart?

Normal variant (deep inspiration)
Addison's disease
Anorexia/bulimia
Dehydration
Severe COPD. HIV

Acquired heart disease
Left atrial enlargement?

Mitral regurgitation (LA and LV enlarged)
Mitral stenosis (LA enlarged, LV normal)
Rheumatic heart disease
A fib
Papillary muscle rupture (MI)

Acquired heart disease
Cardiac masses?

Thrombus
Lipoma
Infectious vegetation
Neoplasm:
-Mets
-Atrial myxoma
-Rhabdomyoma
-Pericardial cyst
-Angiosarcoma

Acquired heart disease
T1 bright cardiac lesions?

Benign:
-Thrombus
-Lipoma
-Myxoma
-Lipomatous hypertrophy of the interatrial septum
Malignant (enhances):
-Angiosarcoma

Acquired heart disease
Pericardial effusion?

CHF
Acute MI
Post-surgical
Autoimmune
Renal failure
Viral infection
Pericardial mets

Acquired heart disease
High-cardiac output states?

Severe anemia
Peripheral AVM
Liver hemangioma
Thyrotoxicosis
Pregnancy vascular met

Acquired heart disease
CHF?

High output failure by age:
-Premature: PDA
- 1st week: Hypoplastic left heart syndrom
-2nd week: coarctation
-Infant: VSD
- Adult: ASD
Increased heart size with normal vascularity:
-Pericardial effusion
-Cardiomyopathy
-Valvular disease

Cardiovascular calcifications
Pericardial?

Pericarditis
Pericardial cysts

Cardiovascular calcifications
Myocardial?

Coronary arteries
Calcified infarct
Aneurysm
Postmyocarditis

Cardiovascular calcifications
Intracardiac?

Calcified valves
Calcified thrombus
Tumors

Cardiovascular calcifications
Aorta?

Atherosclerosis
Syphilitic aortitis
Aneurysm
Pneumopericardium?

Iatrogenic (aspiration, puncture)
Cardiac surgery
Barotrauma
Fistula from bronchogenic or esophageal carcinoma

Coronary aneurysm?

Atherosclerotic
Congenital
Periarteritis nodosa
Kawasaki disease
Mycotic
Syphilis
Trauma

Pulmonary artery enlargement?

Pulmonary artery HTN:
-Primary pulmonary artery HTN
-Secondary pulmonary artery HTN
-PA stenosis (Williams, Rubella, Takayasu's, CHD)
-PA dilatation (post-stenotic jet, Osler-Weber-Rendu)
-Aneurysm cystic medial stenosis (Behcet's, Takayasu's)

Pulmonary arterial HTN
Classification?
Pre-capillary
Post-capillary
Pulmonary arterial HTN
Pre-capillary HTN?
Left to right shunts
Chronic PE
Vasculitis/ Connective tissue diseases
Drugs
Idiopathic
Emphysema
Schistosomiasis
Interstitial fibrosis
Fibrothorax, chest wall deformities
Alveolar hypoventilation
Pulmonary arterial HTN
Post-capillary HTN?

LV failure
Mitral stenosis
LA myxoma
Idiopathic venocclusive disease
Thrombus
Tumor
Mediastinal fibrosis

Pulmonary venous HTN
LV dysfunction:
     -Ischemic heart disease
     -Valvular heart disease
     -CHD
     -Cardiomyopathy
Left atrium:
     -Cor triatriatum
     -LA myxoma
PVOD
Fibrosing Mediastinitis
LV dysfunction:
-Ischemic heart disease
-Valvular heart disease
-CHD
-Cardiomyopathy
Left atrium:
-Cor triatriatum
-LA myxoma
PVOD
Fibrosing Mediastinitis
GROSS CARDIAC ENLARGEMENT

- Multiple valve disease (usually initially due to aortic or mitral valve disease, particularly regurgitation, which progresses to left and then right heart failure)
- Pericardial effusions (no single chamber enlargement identifiable)
- Dilated cardiomyopathy
- Ebstein's anomaly (frequently mimics pericardial effusion)
- Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia
- Heterotropic cardiac transplantation

Persistent arterial truncus

(50% have a right arch) or tetralogy of Fallot
(20–30%)

Associations with VSD

Part of Tetralogy of Fallot
50% of patients with a VSD have an associated additional cardiac abnormality
- Coarctation of the aorta
- Aortic stenosis
- Tricuspid atresia
Associations with VSD

Part of Tetralogy of Fallot
50% of patients with a VSD have an associated additional cardiac abnormality
- Coarctation of the aorta
- Aortic stenosis
- Tricuspid atresia
Acianotic
ASD

- thromboemolic stroke
- Downs (prim)
- Anomalous pulmonary venous return
- Holt- oram (sec)
- Lutembacher

ASD

- thromboemolic stroke
- Downs (prim)
- Anomalous pulmonary venous return (sinus venosus)
- Holt- oram (sec)
- Lutembacher

TAPVC associations

Patent foramen ovale, ASD (necessary to sustain life)
• Heterotaxy syndrome (asplenia more common)
• Cat's eye syndrome

PAPVC associations


- ASD 15% (sinus venosis), supra and cardiac PAPVC lookS like ASD
-  infra cardiac PAPVC is part of the hypogenetic lung syndrome (scimitar)

PAPVC associations


- ASD 15% (sinus venosis), supra and cardiac PAPVC lookS like ASD
- infra cardiac PAPVC is part of the hypogenetic lung syndrome (scimitar)

Hypogenetic lung syndrome,
congenital pulmonary venolobar syndrome
Scimitar syndrome triad:
Right lung hypoplasia, anomalous right pulmonary venous connection to inferior vena cava (IVC), and
anomalous systemic arterial supply to right lower
lobe
Tetrology Variants

Pentalogy - TOF + ASD
Trilogy - PA stenosis,RVH and PFO
Pink Tet - VSD with mild pulmonic stenosis

TOF associations:

- Right aortic arch, mirror image branching (25%)
- PA branch stenosis or hypoplasia
- Absence of pulmonary valve
- Patent foramen ovale
- Coronary anomalies: Left anterior descending arising from right coronary and crossing RVOT (4%), with implications for surgical repair

HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART

Spectrum of cardiac anomalies characterized by underdevelopment of LA, LV, MV, aortic valve, and aorta.

Aortic root

-Valvular
Congenital
Rheumatic
Infectious endocarditis
Trauma
- Aortic root
Syphilis
Dissecting aneurysm
Marfan syndrome
Rheumatoid arthritis
Reiter syndrome
Relapsing polychondritis
Giant cell arteritis
- Subvalvular
Aneurysm of sinus of Valsalva
Subaortic stenosis
High ventricular septal defect

Polyarteritis nodosa,

-Kussmaul disease - vasculitis of medium & small-sized arteries. -attack by rogue immune cells. -minority of people (about 30%) diagnosed have an active Hepatitis B infection, and men are also twice as likely to get the disease as women.

Atrial situs
atrial appendages (best method)

 Right atrial appendage is triangular with a wide base

 Left atrial appendage is a tubular structure
atrial appendages (best method)

 Right atrial appendage is triangular with a wide base

 Left atrial appendage is a tubular structure
Atrioventricular connection

Irrespective of atrioventricular concordance, the atrioventricular valve is
concordant with the ventricle
o Tricuspid valve always connects to the right ventricle
o Mitral valve always connects to the left ventricle

Coarctation

Turner's syndrome (20%)
Berry aneurysms 5-10%
Hypertension
Bicuspid valve 75%
VSD
Coarctation

Turner's syndrome (20%)
Berry aneurysms 5-10%
Hypertension
Bicuspid valve 75%
VSD
Fetal alcohol syndrome(mid aorta). Cystic medial necrosis of the aorta. Hypoplastic left heart syndrome
Traumatic aortic injury
Traumatic aortic injury

Cardiac enhancement patterns

Cardiomyopathies

Ischemic Cardiomyopathy

Non Ischemic cardiomyopathy
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Restrictive cardiomyopathy - Amyloidosis
- Constrictive cardiomyopathy
- Dilated cardiomyopathy
- ARVC
- Myocarditis
- Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy

DCM

- Most common type


- dilatation of all chambers (particularly LV)


- present with CCF


- Patients with midmyocardial enhancement are at higher risk of sudden cardiac death and arrhythmias


- differentiation between idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy and ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy is important (ENHANCEMENT PATTERN)

HCM

- idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic


stenosis (IHSS)


- VS acquired LVH and AS


- sudden death


- CMR - enhancement of basal septum

RCM (compliance type)

- Diminished compliance (=diastolic dysfunction)


- idiopathic vs acquired (infiltration=restrictive pattern)


- important to distinguish restrictive from constrictive cardiomyopathy

RCM (volume)

- mainly a disease of children


- due to endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF) and Loeffler's endocarditis

LVNC

- rare form of congenital cardiomyopathy


- emboli (40%) , low output failure


- myocardium has a „spongy‟ appearance, trabeculated


- associated with CHD vs. Isolated form

ARVD

- There are two variants of ARVC: fatty and fibro-fatty infiltration


- found in the subtricuspid area, the right ventricular apex, and the infundibulum, the 'triangle of dysplasia'

LESS COMMON „SPECIFIC‟ CAUSES OF CARDIOMYOPATHY

Unilateral pulm oedema

Acute aortic syndrome approach

Takayasu Classification

AAA

Cx


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Cx


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