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Severe right ventricular hypertrophy in a patient with extracardiac and intracardiac shunt
Author(s) -
Pahuja Mohit,
Abidov Aiden
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/echo.14045
Subject(s) - intracardiac injection , shunt (medical) , cardiology , medicine , right ventricular hypertrophy , pulmonary hypertension
Cardiac MRI is a complementary and confirmatory modality to a clinical echocardiography in diagnosing patients with complex adult congenital heart disease, especially in presence of great vessel abnormalities. We present a unique case of a patient with pulmonary hypertension ( PH ), severe right ventricular hypertrophy, Gerbode defect, and a large patent ductus arteriosus ( PDA ). The diagnosis of PDA was not visualized on prior serial echocardiograms and discovered on a comprehensive cardiac MRI /Chest MR angiogram.