Here is my take: a ventricular septal defect in infancy allows for left to right shunting of blood in the ventricles. This causes an increased pressure in the right ventricle (due to more blood being pushed into it) and a decreased pressure in the left ventricle. Because there is more blood in the pulmonary circulation from the shunt, I think the left atrial pressure would also be increased in an early VSD.
SO when you repair the VSD, the left ventricle pressure will be increased compared to when the shunt was present (it is no longer losing blood), the right ventricle pressure will be decreased (it is no longer getting blood from the shunt), and the left atrial pressure will be decreased (there is no longer overload of the pulmonary system returning to the left atrium).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but there would never be a situation where there would be no change to a chamber pressure after repairing a congenital heart defect. can immediately eliminate those choices.
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Here is my take: a ventricular septal defect in infancy allows for left to right shunting of blood in the ventricles. This causes an increased pressure in the right ventricle (due to more blood being pushed into it) and a decreased pressure in the left ventricle. Because there is more blood in the pulmonary circulation from the shunt, I think the left atrial pressure would also be increased in an early VSD.
SO when you repair the VSD, the left ventricle pressure will be increased compared to when the shunt was present (it is no longer losing blood), the right ventricle pressure will be decreased (it is no longer getting blood from the shunt), and the left atrial pressure will be decreased (there is no longer overload of the pulmonary system returning to the left atrium).
FA2020 p298