Presentation of atrial septal defect in infancy.
Four patients with atrial septal defects and congestive heart failure in the first year of life had none of the classic auscultatory findings of atrial septal defect. Three of four had murmurs suggestive of innocent pulmonary-artery branch stenosis.
D000367:Age Factors; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D006337:Heart Murmurs; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011652:Pulmonary Circulation