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
