Ventricular Septal Defect with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in an Infant: Is There Something More Than What Meets the Eye?
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An 11-month-old girl was detected to have muscular ventricular septal defect with hyperkinetic pulmonary hypertension (PH) was urgently operated upon. On follow-up, her PH worsened, resulting in right ventricular dysfunction and was later detected to have absent portal vein.
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