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. 2006 Dec;92(12):1879–1885. doi: 10.1136/hrt.2006.093344

Table 1 Postnatal diagnosis of AVSD.

• Clinical
- cyanosis mild or absent
- congestive cardiac failure
- right ventricular impulse
- increased pulmonic component second heart sound
- variable ejection systolic murmur, apical mid‐diastolic murmur (in large left to right shunt), pansystolic murmur (with atrioventricular valve regurgitation)
• ECG
- prolonged PR interval
- superior frontal QRS axis
- partial right bundle branch block
- superior p wave axis (in associated left atrial isomerism)
• Chest radiograph
- cardiomegaly
- prominent pulmonary conus
- increased pulmonary vascularity
- left aortic arch
- left bronchial isomerism (in associated left atrial isomerism)