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Usefulness of Live/Real Time Three-Dimensional Transthoracic Echocardiography in Diagnosing Acquired Left Ventricular-Right Atrial Communication Misdiagnosed as Severe Pulmonary Hypertension by Two-Dimensional Transthoracic Echocardiography |
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| Authors: | Sachin Hansalia M.D. Jayaprakash Manda M.B.B.S. Koteswara Rao Pothineni M.D M.P.H. Navin C. Nanda M.D. |
| Affiliation: | Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama |
| Abstract: | We describe an adult patient with an acquired left ventricular-right atrial communication that was misdiagnosed as severe pulmonary hypertension (PH) by two-dimensional (2D) transthoracic echocardiography, but accurately detected on three-dimensional (3D) transthoracic echocardiography. Open heart surgery confirmed the defect . |
| Keywords: | acquired left ventricular-right atrial communication three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography acquired gerbode type defect |