*rageee* Can someone PLEASE definitivelyyyyy answer this question?

[Knicks]

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I may have made a thread about this in the past, but I'm not gonna look it up. That thread may or may not have had a DEFINITIVE answer.

So I made this thread for ONLY definitive answers.

In Down Syndrome, is the most common congenital cardiac malformation ASD or VSD?


If you can slightly elaborate your responses, that'd be great.


Again, only definitive answers here; not "Well, I heard...", or "I think it might be....", "I'm not sure but....", "you'll have to double-check this but I say...." etc.


Thanks.

 

[turkeyjerky]

funny, I always thought it was down's syndrome. i wonder if anyone I talked to ever noticed, anyway I just looked it up on uptodate:

about 1/2 of kids with down syndrome have CHD. The most common anomaly, accounting for 45% of the total, was an endocardial cushion defect--or a combined atrioventricular septal defect. Number 2 was a VSD.

Definitive enough for you? (I think some of the confusion on this is b/c you always just read or hear "endocardial cushion defect", and people don't know what that actually means)

 

[Jolie South]

Agree with turkeyjerky (and uptodate).

Endocardial cushions form the bottom of the atrial septum, top of ventricular septum -> defect would be an AV septal defect.

 

[da8s0859q]

Again, only definitive answers here; not "Well, I heard...", or "I think it might be....", "I'm not sure but....", "you'll have to double-check this but I say...." etc.

Yes, down with those people trying to be helpful!

Anyway, I'm with the above. Poked around a little bit for you -- A/V defect is #1, with VSD at #2, and the rest bringing up the rear.

 

[smq123]

funny, I always thought it was down's syndrome.

There was a movement a few years ago, when I was an MS1/2, to change syndromes that were named after someone from the possessive. For instance, it wouldn't be Down's Syndrome, but just Down Syndrome; not Alzheimer's Disease, but Alzheimer Disease. As we were reminded, John Langdon Down did not have the syndrome, he just named it. Same for Alois Alzheimer.

It is, however, okay to continue to call it, say, Lou Gehrig's Disease, because Lou Gehrig actually had the disease.

<shrug> Whatever.

 

[Knicks]

Yes, down with those people trying to be helpful!

Anyway, I'm with the above. Poked around a little bit for you -- A/V defect is #1, with VSD at #2, and the rest bringing up the rear.

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ANYway,,,, thanks for the definitive answer, guys.

 

[da8s0859q]

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Hey now, I checked for you too. I was kidding.

 

[Knicks]

^ Thanks man.