Changes in Intracardiac Shunt Elicited by Pneumonia
| Autor: | Nanda Y. Khedkar, Charles J. Martinez, Ira DuBrow, Luis J. Caceres, Jeffrey B. Lakier |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Hypertension Pulmonary Right-to-left shunt Hemodynamics Heart Septal Defects Atrial Intracardiac injection medicine.artery Internal medicine medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Diaphragmatic hernia Radionuclide Imaging Lung Technetium Tc 99m Aggregated Albumin business.industry Infant Heart Pneumonia General Medicine medicine.disease Pulmonary hypertension Surgery medicine.anatomical_structure Cardiology Patent foramen ovale business Shunt (electrical) |
| Zdroj: | Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 19:359-360 |
| ISSN: | 0363-9762 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/00003072-199404000-00021 |
| Popis: | Radionuclide studies effectively demonstrate changes in cardiopulmonary hemodynamics and have been clinically used to demonstrate intracardiac shunts. The authors present a 6-month-old child with a history of a patent foramen ovale and pulmonary hypertension, presumably due to a left diaphragmatic hernia, who demonstrated accentuated pulmonary hypertension from pneumonia resulting in a right to left shunt. A perfusion scan documented a right-to-left shunt that disappeared on a follow-up lung scan as the patient responded to medical management. In a potential surgery candidate, it is prudent to perform quantitative intracardiac studies after the conditions altering cardiopulmonary hemodynamics are stabilized or treated |
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