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Exam questionKROK 2Medicine · 2009

Examination of a 9 month old girl revealed skin pallor, cyanosis during excitement. Percussion revealed transverse dilatation of cardiac borders. Auscultation revealed continuous systolic murmur on the left from the breastbone in the 3-4 intercostal space. This murmur is conducted above the whole cardiac region to the back. What congenital cardiac pathology can be suspected?

Answer options

  1. Coarctation of aorta
  2. Fallot’s tetrad
  3. Defect of interatrial septum
  4. Pulmonary artery stenosis
  5. Defect of interventricular septum
Correct answer

Defect of interventricular septum

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