Long-Term Follow-Up of an Interatrial Right-to-Left Shunt That Appeared After Cardiac Surgery
- 1 January 1996
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Japanese Circulation Society in Japanese Circulation Journal
- Vol. 60 (1) , 70-74
- https://doi.org/10.1253/jcj.60.70
Abstract
Two cases in which a right-to-left shunt appeared across a patent foramen ovale after mitral surgery were clinically and echocardiographically followed for a long period of time. The right-to-left shunt markedly decreased in the supine position on transesophageal Doppler echocardiography in both cases within 2 years after the cardiac surgery, which presumably corresponds to decreased risk of paradoxical embolism.Keywords
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