Congenital ventricular septal defect with late detection. Apropos of a case in an adult
Bonnefoy, L.; Chapoutot, L.; Metz, D.; Laudinat, J.M.; Doucet, J.; Gandon, T.; Guérin, R.; Bajolet, A.
Annales de Cardiologie et d'Angeiologie 38(3): 147-149
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-3928 PMID: 2660729 Document Number: 329928
The authors report the case of a congenital interventricular communication discovered in a 75 year-old female patient. The shunt was identified on the cardiac Doppler and confirmed by catheterization. It was a type IIa interventricular communication which decompensated in the course of a pulmonary embolism. This case points out how rare is the diagnosis of congenital interventricular communication made during adulthood, and emphasizes the advantage of the Doppler in the diagnosis of ventricular shunts.