A mnemonic for surgically-created cardiac shunts for congenital heart disease is:
- Great Flow Really Would Be Perfect
The mnemonic is ordered by the position of the shunt antegrade to normal blood flow through the heart, proceeding from the systemic venous system into the right heart, and then into the arterial system.
Mnemonic
Great Flow Really Would Be Perfect
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G: Glenn shunt
- superior vena cava to right pulmonary artery
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F: Fontan procedure
- inferior vena cava or right atrium to right pulmonary artery
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R: Rastelli procedure
- right ventricle to main pulmonary artery
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W: Waterston shunt
- ascending aorta to right pulmonary artery
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B: Blalock-Taussig shunt
- subclavian artery to pulmonary artery
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P: Pott shunt
- descending thoracic aorta to left pulmonary artery