'Acquired' Left Ventricular to Right Atrial Shunt After Mitral Valve Replacement: Detection by Transthoracic Colour Doppler Echocardiography

Overview

Journal Can J Cardiol

Publisher Elsevier

Specialty Cardiology & Vascular Diseases

Date 2007 Jul 12

PMID 17622397

Citations 7

Authors

Nevzat Uslu

Ilyas Kayacioglu

Mehmet Ates

Mehmet Eren

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Abstract

Left ventricular to right atrial communications are rare types of ventricular septal defects usually of congenital origin. A case of an iatrogenic shunt between the left ventricle and the right atrium as a rare complication of mitral valve replacement is reported.

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