Clinical features of CHD

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  • 33% present with critical illness

  • although patients may be cyanotic, you must know the dx before administering oxygen. it can be lethal!

  • heart failure

  • failure to thrive

  • respiratory distress

  • clubbing

  • polycythemia

  • pulmonary hypertension

  • infective endocarditis—used to be relatively common, but now it’s not so common. patients used to present with stroke after the infection embolized and thrombosed a cerebral vessel

Category: Pathology Notes

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