LOCALIZED PULMONARY EDEMA FOLLOWING SURGICALLY CREATED LEFT-TO-RIGHT SHUNTS

Left-to-Right Shunts

Contrary to the opinion of French pediatrician HenriLouis that isolated ventricular septal defects (VSDs) are universally well tolerated, the subsequent discoveries of Eisenmenger, Abbott, Wood, and others have taught us that the prognosis of left-to-right shunt lesions is not always benign. After more than a century of research, as pediatric cardiologists and congenital heart surgeons, we clai...

The Identification of Right-to-Left Shunts

SEVERAL METHODS are now used in conjunction with cardiac catheterization for localizing and quantitating right-to-left shunts. These include the recording of indicator-dye concentration curves after selective intracardiac dye injection,14 the external recording of radioactivity following injection of radioactive materials,5 6 and the use of cardioangiograms or cineangiograms to picture the cour...

Reexpansion pulmonary edema localized to a lobe.

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Acquired left ventricular-right atrium shunts.

Left ventricular to right atrial (LV-RA) shunt is an unusual type of ventricular septal defect (VSD). This article concentrates on acquired LV-RA shunts, which may be due to complications of cardiac operation, endocarditis, trauma or myocardial infarction. A previous cardiac operation is its most common cause. The diagnosis of LV-RA communication is not easy, and it should be remembered in pati...

Changes in Pulmonary Vascular Resistance in Infants and Children with Left-to-right Intracardiac Shunts.