
Unusual left ventricle to left atrial fistula
Author(s) -
Monish S Raut,
Sandeep Dubey,
Akshay Gupta,
Arun Maheshwari
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
annals of cardiac anaesthesia/annals of cardiac anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.42
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 0974-5181
pISSN - 0971-9784
DOI - 10.4103/aca.aca_130_18
Subject(s) - medicine , ventricle , fistula , cardiology , regurgitation (circulation) , surgery
Left ventricular to left atrial fi stula is a very uncommon finding. Most of the cases are secondary to surgical procedures or paravalvular infectious process. The present case depicted an unusual regurgitation (apart from transmitral MR) through LV-LA fistula causing deterioration of the patient's symptoms.