Shunt Detection and Quantification
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Detection, localization, and quantification of intracardiac shunts are an integral* part of the hemodynamic evaluation of patients with congenital heart disease. In most cases, an intracardiac shunt is suspected on the basis of the clinical evaluation of the patient before catheterization. There are several circumstances, however, in which data obtained at catheterization should alert the cardiologist to look for a shunt that had not been suspected previously:
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Evaluation of the correlation between radionuclide angiocardiography and catheterization for shunt quantification [Persian]
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