Traumatic Intracardiac Communication: Detection by Color Flow Mapping

Autor: Clyne, Christopher A., Aurigemma, Gerard, Sweeney, Andrea, Pezzella, A. Thomas, Paraskos, John, Pape, Linda
Zdroj: Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography; September-October 1989, Vol. 2 Issue: 5 p342-345, 4p
Abstrakt: A previously healthy 20-year-old man underwent emergency surgery for repair of a right ventricular free wall laceration that was the result of a knife wound. A systolic murmur was first heard 1 month later, and two-dimensional echocardiography and color flow mapping demonstrated a communication between the left and right ventricle in the region of the membranous septum. The visualized turbulent flow was consistent with a ventriculoseptal defect but also appeared to extend posteriorly into the left atrium in a direct line with the septal communication. At cardiac catheterization the calculated left-to-right shunt was 1.2:1.
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