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Eisenmenger syndrome: A clinical review |
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| Authors: | Philip Moons Mary M Canobbio Werner Budts |
| Institution: | a Centre for Health Services and Nursing Research, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Kapucijnenvoer 35 post box 7001, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium b Division of Congenital and Structural Cardiology, University Hospitals of Leuven, Belgium c Ahmanson UCLA Center for Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America d UCLA School of Nursing, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America |
| Abstract: | Eisenmenger syndrome is a medical condition, characterized by elevated pulmonary vascular resistance and right-to-left shunting of blood through a systemic-to-pulmonary circulation connection. Patients with Eisenmenger syndrome are not very prevalent in cardiovascular nurses' practice. However, nurses need to have some basic knowledge about the syndrome, in case they have to care for such a patient in their clinical practice. In this article, we describe the epidemiology, outcome, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, medical management and counseling issues of this condition. |
| Keywords: | Congenital heart disease Eisenmenger Pulmonary arterial hypertension Cardiovascular Nursing |
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