Rare Presentation of Gerbode Defect in a 4-Month-Old Nigerian and a Review of the Literature

A Gerbode defect is a very rare congenital anomaly which presents as a direct or an indirect type. We report a 4 month old Nigerian child who presented with poor feeding and failure to thrive and whose echocardiography confirmed an indirect Gerbode with a direct left ventricle to right atrial shunt...

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Autores principales: Otaigbe, Barbara E., Orubide, Douye
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4007741/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24826291
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/564786
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description A Gerbode defect is a very rare congenital anomaly which presents as a direct or an indirect type. We report a 4 month old Nigerian child who presented with poor feeding and failure to thrive and whose echocardiography confirmed an indirect Gerbode with a direct left ventricle to right atrial shunt due to adherent leaflets of the tricuspid valve. This was confirmed by surgery done outside the country.
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spelling pubmed-40077412014-05-13 Rare Presentation of Gerbode Defect in a 4-Month-Old Nigerian and a Review of the Literature Otaigbe, Barbara E. Orubide, Douye Case Rep Cardiol Case Report A Gerbode defect is a very rare congenital anomaly which presents as a direct or an indirect type. We report a 4 month old Nigerian child who presented with poor feeding and failure to thrive and whose echocardiography confirmed an indirect Gerbode with a direct left ventricle to right atrial shunt due to adherent leaflets of the tricuspid valve. This was confirmed by surgery done outside the country. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-12-25 /pmc/articles/PMC4007741/ /pubmed/24826291 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/564786 Text en Copyright © 2013 B. E. Otaigbe and D. Orubide. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Rare Presentation of Gerbode Defect in a 4-Month-Old Nigerian and a Review of the Literature
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