LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP OF AN INTERATRIAL RIGHT-TO-LEFT SHUNT THAT APPEARED AFTER CARDIAC-SURGERY - EVALUATION BY TRANSESOPHAGEAL DOPPLER-ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY

Authors
YASU T FUJII M SAITO M
Citation
T. Yasu et al., LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP OF AN INTERATRIAL RIGHT-TO-LEFT SHUNT THAT APPEARED AFTER CARDIAC-SURGERY - EVALUATION BY TRANSESOPHAGEAL DOPPLER-ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, Japanese Circulation Journal, 60(1), 1996, pp. 70-74
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
Japanese Circulation Journal → ACNP
ISSN journal
00471828
Volume
60
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
70 - 74
Database
ISI
SICI code
0047-1828(1996)60:1<70:LFOAIR>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
Two cases in which a right-to-left shunt appeared across a patent fora men ovale after mitral valve surgery were clinically and echocardiogra phically followed for a long period of time. The right-to-left shunt m arkedly decreased in the supine position on transesophageal Doppler ec hocardiography in both cases within 2 years after the cardiac surgery, which presumably corresponds to a decreased risk of paradoxical embol ism.