A 26-Year-Old Woman with Worsening Dyspnea: Look Closer, Think Critically

Pulmonary hypertension due to congenital heart disease continues to be a diagnostic challenge despite modern diagnostic modalities. Herein, we report a 26-year-old woman with an incidentally documented patent ductus arteriosus and Eisenmenger syndrome. She presented with progressive dyspnea and exer...

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Autores principales: Koza, Yavuzer, Birdal, Oğuzhan, Pirimoğlu, Berhan, Taş, Hakan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7706375/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33282652
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jcecho.jcecho_24_20
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author Koza, Yavuzer
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description Pulmonary hypertension due to congenital heart disease continues to be a diagnostic challenge despite modern diagnostic modalities. Herein, we report a 26-year-old woman with an incidentally documented patent ductus arteriosus and Eisenmenger syndrome. She presented with progressive dyspnea and exercise intolerance which was initially attributed to pulmonary embolus. She was started on macitentan and tadalafil therapy aiming to reduce the pulmonary vascular resistance with consideration for heart–lung transplantation should any further deterioration occur.
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spelling pubmed-77063752020-12-04 A 26-Year-Old Woman with Worsening Dyspnea: Look Closer, Think Critically Koza, Yavuzer Birdal, Oğuzhan Pirimoğlu, Berhan Taş, Hakan J Cardiovasc Echogr Case Report Pulmonary hypertension due to congenital heart disease continues to be a diagnostic challenge despite modern diagnostic modalities. Herein, we report a 26-year-old woman with an incidentally documented patent ductus arteriosus and Eisenmenger syndrome. She presented with progressive dyspnea and exercise intolerance which was initially attributed to pulmonary embolus. She was started on macitentan and tadalafil therapy aiming to reduce the pulmonary vascular resistance with consideration for heart–lung transplantation should any further deterioration occur. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020 2020-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7706375/ /pubmed/33282652 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jcecho.jcecho_24_20 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Journal of Cardiovascular Echography http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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