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Cyanosis due to diastolic right-to-left shunting across a ventricular septal defect in a patient with repaired tetralogy of Fallot and pulmonary atresia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

J. D. R. Thomson ,
J. Forster  and
J. L. Gibbs
J. D. R. Thomson*
Affiliation:
Yorkshire Heart Centre, Paediatric Cardiac Unit, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, UK
J. Forster
Affiliation:
Yorkshire Heart Centre, Paediatric Cardiac Unit, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, UK
J. L. Gibbs
Affiliation:
Yorkshire Heart Centre, Paediatric Cardiac Unit, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, UK
*
Dr J. D. R. Thomson, Yorkshire Heart Centre, Paediatric Cardiac Unit, E Floor, Leeds General Infirmary, Great George Street, Leeds LS1 3EX, UK. Tel: +44 (0)113 243 2799 (direct line 392 5757); Fax: +44 (0)113 3925784; E-mail: jthomson@ulth.northy.nhs.uk
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Abstract

Cyanosis as a result of right-to-left shunting across a ventricular septal defect is commonly encountered in patients with congenital heart disease when systolic pressure in the right ventricle exceeds that in the left ventricle. Reported is the case of a child who remained cyanosed after surgical correction of pulmonary atresia despite right ventricular systolic pressure being lower than left ventricular pressure. Colour-flow Doppler showed a residual ventricular septal defect, with right-to-left shunting in diastole alone.

Keywords

Ventricular septal defectcyanosis
Type
Brief Reports
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 9 , Issue 5 , September 1999 , pp. 506 - 508
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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