Cyanosis in uncomplicated atrial septal defect with normal right cardiac and pulmonary arterial pressures.
A patient with cyanosis in an uncomplicated ostium secundum atrial septal defect without pulmonary hypertension is described. There were no anatomic abnormalities in right-sided cardiac valves or venous return and no evidence of right ventricular hypoplasia or hypertrophy; however, the diastolic pressure curve suggested a decreased compliance. We suggest that this unusual finding may be a result of intrinsically abnormal right ventricular compliance.
D000328:Adult; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000175:diagnosis; D001794:Blood Pressure; D003490:Cyanosis / Q000209:etiology*; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000503:physiopathology*