Large Unrepaired Aortopulmonary Window Presenting in Adulthood

BACKGROUND: Aortopulmonary window is an uncommon congenital heart disease, with untreated cases not surviving beyond childhood. However, very rarely it can present in adult patients with features of pulmonary hypertension. Clinically these patients cannot be differentiated from other more common con...

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Autores principales: Dev, Munish, Sharma, Madhurima, Rana, Naresh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Bentham Science Publishers 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7393594/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31092183
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1573403X15666190513105231
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description BACKGROUND: Aortopulmonary window is an uncommon congenital heart disease, with untreated cases not surviving beyond childhood. However, very rarely it can present in adult patients with features of pulmonary hypertension. Clinically these patients cannot be differentiated from other more common conditions with left to right shunt. Transthoracic echocardiography if performed meticulously, can depict the defect in aortopulmonary septum. RESULTS: We report a case of large unrepaired aortopulmonary window in a 23 years old patient, diagnosed on transthoracic echocardiography.
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spelling pubmed-73935942021-02-01 Large Unrepaired Aortopulmonary Window Presenting in Adulthood Dev, Munish Sharma, Madhurima Rana, Naresh Curr Cardiol Rev Article BACKGROUND: Aortopulmonary window is an uncommon congenital heart disease, with untreated cases not surviving beyond childhood. However, very rarely it can present in adult patients with features of pulmonary hypertension. Clinically these patients cannot be differentiated from other more common conditions with left to right shunt. Transthoracic echocardiography if performed meticulously, can depict the defect in aortopulmonary septum. RESULTS: We report a case of large unrepaired aortopulmonary window in a 23 years old patient, diagnosed on transthoracic echocardiography. Bentham Science Publishers 2020-02 2020-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7393594/ /pubmed/31092183 http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1573403X15666190513105231 Text en © 2020 Bentham Science Publishers https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode), which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7393594/
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