Congenital heart disease
Congenital Heart Disease — Internal Medicine
How it begins
Fisiopatología, diagnóstico y tratamiento de las cardiopatías congénitas desde la perspectiva del internista y el cardiólogo: desde la clasificación hemodinámica hasta el manejo del adulto con cardiopatía congénita y sus complicaciones crónicas.
What it covers
- Classification and Epidemiology
- · Classical classification (hemodynamics)
- · Anatomical classification by affected structure
- Pathophysiology of Short Circuit (Shunt)
- · Physiopathological consequences of chronic left-right shunt
- Eisenmenger syndrome
- · Etiology and mechanisms of pulmonary vasculopathy
- · Clinical manifestations of Eisenmenger syndrome
- · Management of Eisenmenger syndrome
- Interatrial Communication (ASD)
- · Anatomical types and their characteristics
- · Physiopathology
- · Clinical and diagnosis
- Ventricular Communication (VSD)
- · Anatomical classification
- · Pathophysiology and clinical spectrum by size
- · Clinical and physical examination
- Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PAD)
- · Physiopathology
- · Clinical manifestations
- Atrioventricular Canal Defect (AVCD)
- Coarctation of Aorta (CoA)
- · Morphological classification
- · Physiopathology
- · Clinical and diagnosis
- Congenital Pulmonary Stenosis (PS)
- · Classification by gradient and clinical
- · Clinical and diagnosis
- Congenital Aortic Stenosis and Bicuspid Aortic Valve
- · Anatomical forms of congenital AS
- Tetralogy of Fallot (ToF)
- · The four anomalies of tetralogy
- · Pathophysiology and clinical spectrum
- · Clinical
- · Treatment of hypoxic crises
- Transposition of the Great Arteries (TGA)
- · Physiopathology
- · Clinical presentation and diagnosis
- Common Truncus Arteriosus
- Ebstein anomaly
- · Pathophysiology and clinical spectrum
- Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS)
- · Palliative surgery in three stages (Norwood)
- Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Drainage (DVPAT)
- Infectious endocarditis in CC
- · Risk stratification according to the ESC 2023 guidelines
- · Antibiotic prophylaxis in risk procedures
- CC in Adults (GUCH)
- · Most frequent problems in adults with CHD
- · Modified WHO classification for maternal risk in CHD (mWHO)
- Genetics of CHD and Associated Syndromes
- · Familial recurrence in multifactorial CHD
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- Subject
- Internal Medicine
- Category
- Clinical Specialties
- Type
- Study Guide
- Sections
- 52
- Reviewed
- 2026-08-02