Open AccessMirror-image Gerbode defect?
Author(s) -
Linda Zacharkiw,
H. L. Stimpson
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
european journal of echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1525-2167
pISSN - 1532-2114
DOI - 10.1093/ejechocard/jer079
Subject(s) - medicine , radiology , nuclear medicine
A 43-year-old man with a repaired partial atrioventricular septal defect presented post-stroke. Transthoracic and bubble contrast echocardiography was positive, suggesting a right-to-left shunt. Transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE) was arranged to define the anatomy.TOE demonstrated an atrial septal and left atrioventricular valve repair with mild central regurgitation and a second small jet of presumed residual regurgitation through the valve.Bubble contrast injection showed bubbles in the left heart immediately after the …
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