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Inferior vena cava stenosis: Echocardiographic diagnosis in Marfan syndrome

Marfan syndrome is a genetic disease with variable clinical presentation. This case describes a 36-year-old lady who was diagnosed with Marfan syndrome based on revised Ghent criteria. She was found to have bicuspid aortic valve and sensorineural hearing loss. Inferior vena cava stenosis was suspect...

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Autores principales: Ghazal, Sami Nimer, Ouf, Shady G
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4754559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26925409
http://dx.doi.org/10.5339/gcsp.2015.50
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description Marfan syndrome is a genetic disease with variable clinical presentation. This case describes a 36-year-old lady who was diagnosed with Marfan syndrome based on revised Ghent criteria. She was found to have bicuspid aortic valve and sensorineural hearing loss. Inferior vena cava stenosis was suspected on echocardiography due to high velocity flow and visualization of a focal narrowing in the inferior vena cava proximal to hepatic vein entry. Inferior vena cava stenosis was confirmed by computed tomography. Echocardiographic features suggestive of inferior vena cava stenosis include detection of a focal narrowing and high turbulent flow, peak velocity > 1.5 m/s and S/D wave fusion on spectral Doppler.
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spelling pubmed-47545592016-02-26 Inferior vena cava stenosis: Echocardiographic diagnosis in Marfan syndrome Ghazal, Sami Nimer Ouf, Shady G Glob Cardiol Sci Pract Images in Cardiology Marfan syndrome is a genetic disease with variable clinical presentation. This case describes a 36-year-old lady who was diagnosed with Marfan syndrome based on revised Ghent criteria. She was found to have bicuspid aortic valve and sensorineural hearing loss. Inferior vena cava stenosis was suspected on echocardiography due to high velocity flow and visualization of a focal narrowing in the inferior vena cava proximal to hepatic vein entry. Inferior vena cava stenosis was confirmed by computed tomography. Echocardiographic features suggestive of inferior vena cava stenosis include detection of a focal narrowing and high turbulent flow, peak velocity > 1.5 m/s and S/D wave fusion on spectral Doppler. Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals 2016-02-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4754559/ /pubmed/26925409 http://dx.doi.org/10.5339/gcsp.2015.50 Text en © 2015 Ghazal, Ouf, licensee Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license CC BY 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Inferior vena cava stenosis: Echocardiographic diagnosis in Marfan syndrome
title Inferior vena cava stenosis: Echocardiographic diagnosis in Marfan syndrome
title_full Inferior vena cava stenosis: Echocardiographic diagnosis in Marfan syndrome
title_fullStr Inferior vena cava stenosis: Echocardiographic diagnosis in Marfan syndrome
title_full_unstemmed Inferior vena cava stenosis: Echocardiographic diagnosis in Marfan syndrome
title_short Inferior vena cava stenosis: Echocardiographic diagnosis in Marfan syndrome
title_sort inferior vena cava stenosis: echocardiographic diagnosis in marfan syndrome
topic Images in Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4754559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26925409
http://dx.doi.org/10.5339/gcsp.2015.50
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