Study notes

Cardiac conditions associated with susceptibility to endocarditis

Relative frequency of congenital cardiac malformations

Congenital heart disease: origin, incidence and adult presentation

Fetal circulation and developmental causes of congenital heart disease

Age-related presentation of congenital heart disease

Clinical manifestations and complications of congenital heart disease

Pulmonary vascular disease in congenital shunts and fetal circulation

Circulatory changes at birth and Eisenmenger syndrome

Pregnancy in congenital heart disease

Persistent ductus arteriosus: definition and associations

Persistent ductus arteriosus: shunt physiology

Persistent ductus arteriosus: clinical findings and shunt reversal

Persistent ductus arteriosus: anatomy and investigations

Persistent ductus arteriosus: closure and maintenance of patency

Coarctation of the aorta: frequency, associations and acquired causes

Coarctation of the aorta: location and pressure effects

Aortic coarctation: clinical features

Aortic coarctation: investigations

Coarctation of the aorta: management and follow-up

Atrial septal defect: anatomical types

Atrial septal defect: shunt physiology and consequences

Atrial septal defect: symptoms and auscultatory findings

Atrial septal defect: investigations and shunt physiology

Atrial septal defect: imaging and percutaneous closure

Atrial septal defect: closure, monitoring and contraindications

Ventricular septal defect: murmur and clinical presentation

Management of ventricular septal defects

Tetralogy of Fallot: cyanosis, spells and examination findings

Other causes of cyanotic congenital heart disease

Late complications after congenital heart disease surgery

Investigations for myocarditis

Dilated cardiomyopathy: management and related morphological patterns

Obliterative cardiomyopathy

Secondary cardiomyopathy: patterns and underlying causes

Primary and metastatic cardiac tumours

Pericardial effusion: clinical findings and tamponade

Constrictive pericarditis: clinical findings and related tuberculous pericarditis care

Clinical features of cardiac tamponade

Embryology of the thyroid and parathyroid glands

Thyroid structure, lymphatic drainage and recurrent laryngeal nerve anatomy