Premium
Lutembacher's syndrome: Recognition by echocardiography
Author(s) -
Forman H. R.,
Kotler M. N.,
Segal B. L.,
Parry W. R.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
journal of clinical ultrasound
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.272
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1097-0096
pISSN - 0091-2751
DOI - 10.1002/jcu.1870070115
Subject(s) - medicine , ventricle , cardiology , pulmonary hypertension , volume overload , stenosis , mitral regurgitation , regurgitation (circulation) , cardiac catheterization , heart failure
The typical echocardiographic features of mitral stenosis in association with an enlarged right ventricle and abnormal septal motion are generally consistent with pulmonary hypertension and functional tricuspid regurgitation. In the absence of clinical and echocardiographic features of pulmonary hypertension, the combination of mitral stenosis and “volume overload” of the right ventricle should alert the clinician to the diagnosis of Lutembacher's syndrome. This report discusses a patient with these echocardiographic findings in whom the diagnosis of Lutembacher's syndrome was confirmed by cardiac catheterization.