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Exam questionKROK 2Medicine · 2011

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

Defect of interventricular septum

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