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 {{main|Congenital heart disease}}
 Congential heart disease... a domain of paediatric cardiac surgery and occasionally adult cardiac surgery.
+The article covers shunts, both left-to-right and right-to-left.
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 ===Endocarditis===
 See [[Valvular heart disease]].
-==Shunts==
-Most shunts are a consequence of congenital heart disease, which is dealt with in the [[congenital heart disease]] article.  They are only listed here briefly and grouped into ''left-to-right'' and ''right-to-left''.
-===Left-to-right===
-Mnemonic ''the Ds'':<ref name=Ref_PBoD566>{{Ref PBoD|566}}</ref>
-*ASD = atrial septal defect.
-*VSD = ventricular septal defect.
-*AVSD = atrioventricular defect.
-*PDA = patent ductus arteriosus.
-Note: The word ''Left'' has four letters and there are four L->R shunts.
-===Right-to-left===
-Mnemonic ''5 Ts'':<ref name=Ref_PBoD568>{{Ref PBoD|568}}</ref>
-*Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF),
-*Transposition of great arteries,
-*Truncus arteriosus,
-*Tricuspid valve atresia,
-*Total anomalous pulmonary venous return.
-Clinical: TOF is the classic cause of "blue babies".
 ==Cardiac sarcoidosis==