Patho Chapter 31 True/False

Acquired heart disease is the most common cardiovascular disease in children.

FALSE

All hypertension in children is considered primary hypertension.

FALSE

Closure of the ductus arteriosus normally occurs immediately after birth.

FALSE

In general, the pathophysiologic mechanisms of congestive heart failure are very different in children than in adults.

FALSE

Lesions that increase the pulmonary blood flow are called right-to-left shunts.

FALSE

Common clinical manifestations of right ventricular failure in children include failure to thrive and periorbital edema.

TRUE

Complete transposition of the great vessels is a congenital heart defect in which the left ventricle pumps blood to the pulmonary circulation.

TRUE

Conditions in which a patent foramen ovale may continue past the first month of life include pulmonary hypertension, right ventricular failure, and tricuspid atresia.

TRUE

Diagnosis of primary hypertension in children is difficult since the early stages are often asymptomatic.

TRUE

Fetal heart contractions begin by approximately the twenty-eighth day of gestation.

TRUE

In some cases of total anomalous pulmonary venous return, pulmonary veins drain into the vena cava.

TRUE

Iron deficiency anemia may result from polycythemia that develops from chronic hypoxia.

TRUE

Kawasaki disease is a self-limiting systemic vasculitis.

TRUE

Most cardiovascular development occurs between the fourth and seventh weeks of gestation.

TRUE

The purpose of the foramen ovale is to allow a right-to-left shunt necessary for fetal circulation.

TRUE